Gittenbergeria turriplana

Gittenbergeria turriplana is a species of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Trissexodontidae.

[6] The shell is brown with a characteristic microsculpture, depressed with a strong keel.

[6] Animal is almost black with a lighter foot, upper tentacles very long.

[6] It lives in low altitudes on calcareous substrate, close to the coast.

[6] It is frequent at old walls and in old gardens and parks in cities, also in shrublands and cultivated areas.

map showing Algarve region in southern Portugal, where Gittenbergeria turriplana is endemic to.