Mirus panos
| Mirus panos | |
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| Shell of Mirus panos (syntype at the Natural History Museum, London) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Enidae |
| Genus: | Mirus |
| Species: | M. panos
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| Binomial name | |
| Mirus panos (W. H. Benson, 1853)
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| Synonyms | |
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Bulimus panos W. H. Benson, 1853 | |
Mirus panos is a species of air-breathing land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod in the subfamily Eninae of the family Enidae.[1] E. panos are endemic to Sri Lanka.[2]
The shell ranges in size from 3–11 mm (0.12–0.43 in) in length, is elongated, with flattened lips.
They were first described in 1853 by British malacologist William Henry Benson.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Mirus Albers, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996262 on 2021-08-01
- ^ Naggs, F. & Raheem, D. (2000). Land snail diversity in Sri Lanka. An illustrated guide prepared for the launch of the Darwin Initiative programme. Photography by Harold Taylor. The Natural History Museum, London. pages i-xiii, 1-203. 246 coloured plates. ISBN 0565091514 (printed version), ISBN 0565091565 (compact disc)., available online at https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/tropical-land-snails/taxa.dsml
- ^ Benson, W. H. (1853). Characters of new land shells, collected by Edgar L. Layard, Esq., in Ceylon Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 12(68): 90-97., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22191524