Malarinia calcopercula

Malarinia calcopercula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Diplommatinidae
Genus: Malarinia
Species: M. calcopercula
Binomial name
Malarinia calcopercula
Emberton, 1994
Synonyms
  • Hainesia crocea (Sowerby, 1847)
  • Malarinia sp. 1 (Emberton et al., 1996), (Emberton, 1997)

Malarinia calcopercula is a species of small land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Diplommatinidae.

Distribution

This land snail is endemic to Madagascar.

Habitat

This species lives in subtropical or tropical dry forests.

References

  1. ↑ Emberton K. C. (2000). Malarinia calcopercula. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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