Tropidophora michaudi
Tropidophora michaudi | |
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Drawing of apertural view of the shell of Tropidophora michaudi | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Littorinoidea |
Family: | Pomatiidae |
Subfamily: | Pomatiinae |
Genus: | Tropidophora |
Species: | T. michaudi |
Binomial name | |
Tropidophora michaudi Grateloup, 1840[2] | |
Synonyms | |
Cyclostoma Michaudi Grateloup, 1840 |
Tropidophora michaudi is a species of land snail with a gill and an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiidae.
This species is endemic to Mauritius.[1]
Original description
Tropidophora fimbriata was originally described as Cyclostoma Michaudi by Jean-Pierre Sylvestre de Grateloup in 1840.[2]
Grateloup's original text (the type description) in Latin language reads as follows:
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C. testa perforata, globoso-conica, solida, striatula, carinis 7 — 8 magis minusve prominentibus, acutiusculis cincta, cinerea vel pallide violacea; spira conica, interdum truncata; anfr. 6 convexis, ultimo basi carina validiore, funiculata ab umbilico infundibuliformi, intus spiraliter sulcato, vix pervio separato; apertura subcirculari; perist. albido, breviter expanso, crenulato, marginibus callo albido junctis, columellari dilatato, crasso, subreflexo, perforationem occultante, ad carinam basalem obsolete canaliculato. |
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Shell description
- Lateral view of the shell
- Basal view of the shell
References
This article incorporates public domain text from reference.[2]
- 1 2 Griffiths O. (1996). Tropidophora michaudi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
- 1 2 3 (Latin) Grateloup (1840). Act. Bord. XI., p. 440, table 3, figure 11.
Further reading
- (German) Pfeiffer L. K. G. (1846). Die gedeckelten Lungenschnecken : (Helicinaceae et Cyclostomaceae): in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. II. volume. Bauer und Raspe, Nürnberg. page 138.