Ovachlamys fulgens | |
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A live individual of Ovachlamys fulgens, notice the caudal horn on the tail end of the foot | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Helicarionidae |
Genus: | Ovachlamys |
Species: | O. fulgens
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Binomial name | |
Ovachlamys fulgens | |
Synonyms | |
Macrochlamys fulgens Gude, 1900 |
Ovachlamys fulgens is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicarionidae.
Ovachlamys fulgens was originally discovered and described as Macrochlamys fulgens by the British malacologist Gerard Pierre Laurent Kalshoven Gude in 1900.[1]