Sphincterochila prophetarum


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

Distribution

The species occurs in Egypt, southern Israel, Jordan, and in the coastal mountains of western Saudi Arabia.

Shell description

The shell is perforate, depressed, solid, stridulate, cretaceous, white and with suture impressed. The shell has flattened or slightly convex whorls. The last whorl is very obsoletely angulated, rounded in front, shortly and
suddenly deflected.
The width of the shell is 16 mm.