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Embertoniphanta farafanga

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Embertoniphanta farafanga
A view of the left side of a live Embertoniphanta farafanga
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Acavidae
Genus: Embertoniphanta
Species:
E. farafanga
Binomial name
Embertoniphanta farafanga
(H. Adams, 1875)
Synonyms

Helicophanta farafanga

Embertoniphanta farafanga (syn. Helicophanta farafanga) is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropods mollusk in the family Acavidae. The species occurs in Madagascar.

Embertoniphanta farafanga is a burrower.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Emberton K. C. (1994). "Morphology and aestivation behaviour in some Madagascan acavid land snails". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 53(2): 175-187. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1994.tb01008.x.