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Ctenophila vorticella

species of mollusc

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ308299 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ctenophila vorticella is a species of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Euconulidae, the hive snails. This species is endemic to Réunion, a French island in the Indian Ocean.

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“Ctenophila vorticella” enters the record as species of mollusc. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ctenophila, vorticella and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current 34-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ctenophila, vorticella and species.
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Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q308299. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ctenophila vorticella” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.