Blanfordia bensoni

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Blanfordia bensoni
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Dorsal view of a live Blanfordia bensoni
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Pomatiopsidae
Genus: Blanfordia
Species:
B. bensoni
Binomial name
Blanfordia bensoni
(A. Adams, 1861) [1]
Synonyms [1] [2]
  • Tomichia Bensoni A. Adams, 1861
  • Blanfordia hirasei Pilsbry, 1900
  • Pomatiopsis Hirasei Pilsbry, 1900 [3]

Blanfordia bensoni is a species of land snail which has an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae. [4]

Contents

Blanfordia bensoni is the type species of the genus Blanfordia. [2]

Distribution

This species is endemic to Japan. [4] The type locality is "Matsumai, Yesso", [1] Hokkaido.

It is a Vulnerable species. [5]

Description

The height of the shell is 8.5 mm. [6]

Drawing of apertural view of a shell. The scale is 1 mm. Blanfordia bensoni shell.png
Drawing of apertural view of a shell. The scale is 1 mm.
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Drawing of Blanfordia bensoni.

Ecology

This species lives as a terrestrial snail in inland forests. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Adams A. (1861). "On some new Genera and Species of Mollusca from the North of China and Japan". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3)8: 299-309. 308.
  2. 1 2 Davis G. M. (1979). "The origin and evolution of the gastropod family Pomatiopsidae, with emphasis on the Mekong river Triculinae". Academy of natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Monograph 20: 1-120. at Google books.
  3. ↑ Pilsbry H. A. (1900). "Notices of some new Japanese mollusks". The Nautilus 14(1): 11-12. page 12.
  4. 1 2 3 Kameda Y. & Kato M. (2011). "Terrestrial invasion of pomatiopsid gastropods in the heavy-snow region of the Japanese Archipelago". BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 118. doi : 10.1186/1471-2148-11-118 .
  5. ↑ (in Japanese) "オカマメタニシ" Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine . 日本のレッドデータ検索システム [Japanese Red List Data Book], accessed 17 July 2011.
  6. ↑ Barker G. M. (2001). Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. In" Barker G. M. (ed.) The biology of terrestrial molluscs . CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN   0-85199-318-4. 1-146, page 37.
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