Mirus panos

{{Short description|Species of terrestrial snails}}

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|image = Mirus panos 001.jpg

|image_caption = Shell of Mirus panos (syntype at the Natural History Museum, London)

|genus = Mirus

|species = panos

|authority = (W. H. Benson, 1853)

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|synonyms = Bulimus panos W. H. Benson, 1853

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Mirus panos is a species of air-breathing land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod in the subfamily Eninae of the family Enidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Mirus Albers, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996262 on 2021-08-01 E. panos are endemic to Sri Lanka.Naggs, F. & Raheem, D. (2000). Land snail diversity in Sri Lanka. An illustrated guide prepared for the launch of the Darwin Initiative programme. Photography by Harold Taylor. The Natural History Museum, London. pages i-xiii, 1-203. 246 coloured plates. ISBN 0565091514 (printed version), ISBN 0565091565 (compact disc)., available online at https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/tropical-land-snails/taxa.dsml

The shell ranges in size from {{cvt|3-11|mm}} in length, is elongated, with flattened lips.

They were first described in 1853 by British malacologist William Henry Benson.Benson, W. H. (1853). Characters of new land shells, collected by Edgar L. Layard, Esq., in Ceylon Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 12(68): 90-97., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22191524

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