Staffordia daflaensis

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Staffordia daflaensis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Staffordiidae
Genus: Staffordia
Species:
S. daflaensis
Binomial name
Staffordia daflaensis

Staffordia daflaensis is a species of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Staffordiidae.

Contents

The specific name daflaensis is apparently according to its area of distribution, Dafla Hills in India.

Distribution

The type locality of this species is "Shengorh Peak", 7,000 feet (2,100 m), Dafla Hills in India. [1]

Godwin-Austen (1907) [1] have found this species very abundant in Dafla Hills.

Description

The shell is depressedly tumidly conoid, umbilicated, solid, rather flat on base. [1] The sculpture is very regular, longitudinal, sharply defined, broad-ridged ribbing. [1] Color is rich olivaceous with ochre tint. [1] It vary in colour and size, often being of a pale ochraceous-grey tint. [1] The spire is low, sides convex. [1] The suture is shallow, adpressed. [1] The shell has 6 whorls, that are rapidly increasing. [1] The last whorl is rounded. The aperture is broadly ovate, oblique, milky white within. [1] The peristome is acute, sinuous above and slightly so below, much reflected at umbilical margin. [1] The columellar margin is very oblique and descending. [1]

The width of the shell is 16.2-23.5 mm. [1] The height of the shell is 8.0-9.4 mm. [1]

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References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference. [1]

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Godwin-Austen H. H. (1907). Land and freshwater mollusca of India, including South Arabia, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Burma, Pegu, Tenasserim, Malaya Peninsula, Ceylon and other islands of the Indian Ocean; Supplementary to Masers Theobald and Hanley's Conchologica Indica. Taylor and Francis, London. 2: page 185, plate CXIII, figure 1.
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