Sphincterochila baetica

Sphincterochila baetica is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Sphincterochilidae.

Sphincterochila baetica
Apertural view of the shell of Sphincterochila baetica.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Sphincterochilidae
Genus:	Sphincterochila
Species:	S. baetica
Binomial name
Sphincterochila baetica (Rossmässler, 1854)

Distribution

This species occurs in Spain, Morocco, and Algeria.^[1]

Shell description

The shell is globose, solid, whitish ash-color. The shell has 5 whorls which are very slowly increasing, the upper ones carious-rugulose, the penultimate about as broad as the last. The last whorl is more or less angulated on the periphery, and rounded in front.^[1]

The aperture is widely lunate, angulated exteriorly. The peristome is internally sublabiate.^[1]

The width of the shell is 25 mm.^[1]

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  Apical view of the shell of Sphincterochila baetica.
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  Basal view of the shell ofSphincterochila baetica.