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Pleurodiscus balmei

Pleurodiscus balmei
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Five views of a shell of Pleurodiscus balmei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra

Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Pleurodiscidae
Genus: Pleurodiscus
Species: P. balmei
Binomial name
Pleurodiscus balmei
(Potiez & Michaud, 1838)
Synonyms

Helix Balmei Potiez & Michaud, 1838


clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra

Helix Balmei Potiez & Michaud, 1838

Pleurodiscus balmei is a Mediterranean European species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pleurodiscidae.

This species is known to occur in a number of countries and islands including:

It was introduced to southeastern Australia.

This snail also occurs as a "hothouse alien" in:



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