Kimberleymelon tealei (original) (raw)

Kimberleymelon tealei is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae.Kimberleymelon tealei is the only species in the genus Kimberleymelon. The generic name Kimberleymelon consists of "Kimberley" which is a region in Western Australia, and the suffix "-melon" which is from the Greek language meaning melon, the fleshy fruit of the family Cucurbitaceae, a reference to the globular shape of the shell. The specific name "tealei" is in honor of , the malacologist who collected the holotype of this species.