Megalobulimus ovatus
| Megalobulimus ovatus | |
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| Shell of Megalobulimus ovatus on display at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Acavoidea |
| Family: | Strophocheilidae |
| Subfamily: | Megalobuliminae |
| Genus: | Megalobulimus |
| Species: | M. ovatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Megalobulimus ovatus (O. F. Muller) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Megalobulimus ovatus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Strophocheilidae. [1]
Shells are oblong or turreted and can reach a length of about 15 centimetres (5.9 in).[2]
This species is endemic to Brazil. [3] [4]
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