Tropidophora michaudi

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Tropidophora michaudi
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Drawing of apertural view of the shell of Tropidophora michaudi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Pomatiidae
Genus: Tropidophora
Species:
T. michaudi
Binomial name
Tropidophora michaudi
(Grateloup, 1834) [2]
Synonyms

Tropidophora michaudi is a species of land snail with a gill and an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiidae.

Contents

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:

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.

Shell description

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References

This article incorporates public domain text from reference. [2]

  1. 1 2 Griffiths O. (1996). Tropidophora michaudi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 7 August 2007.
  2. 1 2 3 (in Latin) Grateloup (1840). Act. Bord. XI., p. 440, table 3, figure 11.

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