Blanfordia japonica

Blanfordia japonica
Drawing of dorsal view of Blanfordia japonica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Pomatiopsidae
Genus:	Blanfordia
Species:	B. japonica
Binomial name
Blanfordia japonica (A. Adams, 1861) [1]
Synonyms [1] [2]
Tomichia japonica A. Adams, 1861 Blanfordia bensoni minor Pilsbry, 1901 Blanfordia pilbryana Annandale, 1924

Blanfordia japonica is a species of land snail which has an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae. ^[3]

Distribution

This species is endemic to Japan. ^[3] The type locality is Sado. ^[1]

It is a Near Threatened species. ^[4]

Description

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

Drawing of lateral view of a shell. The scale is 1 mm.

Blanfordia japonica on the forest floor.

Ecology

This species lives from coastal areas to inland forests. ^[3]

References

1. 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. 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. page 117.
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 .
4. (in Japanese) "イツマデガイ" 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.

External links

• (in Japanese) 江川 和文 Ekawa K. (1985). "福井県産イツマデガイの諸知見 [A Note on Blanfordia japonica from Fukui Prefecture]". ちりぼたん Newsletter of the Malacological Society of Japan15(4): 93-97. CiNii.