San Diego chestnut

Glyptostoma newberryanum

Classification

Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Megomphicidae

Glyptostoma is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Megomphicidae. These are large (to about 40 mm or 1. 5 inches in diameter) dark brown snails, much shorter than wide.

Distribution

San Diego chestnut — (c) Chris Brown, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 259Mexico · 11

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Chris Brown, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionGlyptostoma, Wikipedia contributors

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