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DLinza Forest PinWheel SnaiL: South African Endemic Mollusk
This gastropod is an air breathing pulmonate (its gills being replaced by a single lung). Spiral bristles radiate from the shell (a whorl), resembling a firework wheel from which it takes its name... This small (9.7mm) terrestrial land snail is found only in an area of aproximately 250 ha in KwaZulu, Natal.