Gazelle : The Palestinian Biological Bulletin (ISSN 0178 – 6288) . Number 126, June 2015, pp. 1-16.

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The Terrestrial Gastropods in Palestine

‫الحيوانات البطنقدمية البرية في فلسطين‬
By: Prof. Dr. Sc. Norman Ali Bassam Ali Taher KhalafSakerfalke von Jaffa
The Gastropoda or gastropods, more commonly known as snails and slugs, are a
large taxonomic class within the phylum Mollusca. The class Gastropoda
includes snails and slugs of all kinds and all sizes from microscopic to large.
There are many thousands of species of sea snails and sea slugs, as well
as freshwater snails, freshwater limpets, land snails and land slugs (Wikipedia).

Eobania vermiculata (O. F. Müller, 1774).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eobania_vermiculata#mediaviewer/File:Eob
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Gazelle : The Palestinian Biological Bulletin – Number 126 – June 2015