Chilean Black Snail

Macrocyclis peruvianus

Classification

Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Macrocyclidae

Macrocyclis is a monotypic genus of large air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Macrocyclidae. The single living species in this genus is Macrocyclis peruvianus (Lamarck, 1822). Distribution Macrocyclis peruvianus is endemic to Chile and adjacent parts of Argentina.

Distribution

Chilean Black Snail — (c) Cristian Riquelme, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Cristian Riquelme · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Chile · 171

Sources and credits

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Chilean Black Snail

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