| Scutalus mariopenai | |
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| A live individual of Scutalus mariopenai | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Bulimulidae |
| Genus: | Scutalus |
| Species: | S. mariopenai
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| Binomial name | |
| Scutalus mariopenai Breure & Mogollón Avilla, 2010[1]
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Scutalus mariopenai is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bulimulidae.
The specific name mariopenai honours Mario Peña González, a malacologist from Lima and tutor of the second author.[1] The specific epithet is a noun in the genitive case.[1]
- ^ a b c Breure A. S. H. & Mogollón Avila V. (2010). "Well-known and little-known: miscellaneous notes on Peruvian Orthalicidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Zoologische Mededelingen 84. HTM.