Marmorana platychela is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Helicidae.
| Marmorana platychela | |
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| A live individual of Marmorana platychela sicana | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Helicidae |
| Genus: | Marmorana |
| Species: | M. platychela
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| Binomial name | |
| Marmorana platychela (Menke, 1830)
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Distribution
editThis species lives in north-western Sicily (Italy).[1] It is confined to limestone rock faces.
Description
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References
edit- ^ Fiorentino V, Manganelli G, Giusti F (2008). "Multiple scale patterns of shell and anatomy variability in land snails: the case of the Sicilian Marmorana (Gastropoda: Pulmonata, Helicidae)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 93 (2): 359–370. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00940.x.
External links
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