Gazelle : The Palestinian Biological Bulletin (ISSN 0178 – 6288) . Number 120, December 2014, pp. 30-53.

31 Abstract: A new subspecies of the White Desert Land Snail from the genus Sphincterochila (Class Gastropoda, Superfamily Helicoidea, Family Sphincterochilidae, Subfamily Sphincterochilinae) was found in the Umm Dimna (Dimona) Area in Al-Naqab (Negev) Desert, Occupied Palestine. The new subspecies is distinguished from the subspecies Sphincterochila boissieri boissieri which lives in Al-Naqab and Sinai by its slightly different shell structure. It is morphologically a distinct subspecies. The new subspecies was named Sphincterochila boissieri ummdimna Khalaf, 2014. Keywords: Gastropoda, Helicoidea, Sphincterochilidae, Sphincterochilinae, Sphincterochila boissieri ummdimna, White Desert Land Snail, Umm Dimna White Desert Land Snail, Al-Naqab White Desert Land Snail, Al-Naqab, Negev, New Subspecies, Umm Dimna, Dimona, Desert, Palestine, Israel, Near East, Middle East. The New Umm Dimna White Desert Land Snail Subspecies Sphincterochila boissieri ummdimna Khalaf, 2014 from Umm Dimna (Dimona) Area in Al-Naqab (Negev) Desert, Occupied Palestine. Photo by: Prof. Dr. Sc. Norman Ali Bassam Ali Taher KhalafSakerfalke von Jaffa. 22.12.2014. https://www.flickr.com/photos/50022881@N00/15998905447/ Gazelle : The Palestinian Biological Bulletin – Number 120 – December 2014

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