Prestonella nuptialis

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Prestonella nuptialis
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Drawing of abapertural view of a shell of Prestonella nuptialis from its type description.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group

Contents

Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Orthalicoidea
Family:
Bothriembryontidae
Subfamily:
Prestonellinae
Genus:
Prestonella
Species:
P. nuptialis
Binomial name
Prestonella nuptialis
(Melvill & Ponsonby, 1894) [1]
Synonyms [1]

Buliminus nuptialis Melvill & Ponsonby, 1894

Prestonella nuptialis is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Bothriembryontidae.

It was previously classified within Prestonellidae. cf. [2] [3]

Distribution

This species is endemic to Eastern Cape, [4] South Africa. [5] [6]

The type locality is Craigie Burn, Somerset East, South Africa. [1]

Description

Prestonella nuptialis shell. Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.MOL.265133 - Prestonella nuptialis (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1894) - Bothriembryontidae - Mollusc shell.jpeg
Prestonella nuptialis shell.

Prestonella nuptialis was described by two British malacologists James Cosmo Melvill (1845-1929) and John Henry Ponsonby-Fane (1848-1916) in 1894. [1] The type description reads in Latin and the English language as follows: [1]

Buliminus nuptialis, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 5.)

B. testa angustissime umbilicata, delicatula, tenui, succineo-brunnea; anfractibus quatuor, tribus supra parvis, ultimo perlato, rapide accrescente, effuso, undique longitudinaliter oblique rude liratis; apertura oblonga; peristomate simplici, tenui, apud umbilicum fere clausum, reflexo. Long. 15, lat. 8·50 mill.

Hab. Craigie Burn, Somerset East (Mrs. Mary Layard Barber). In coll. E. L. Layard.

A small delicate shell, of succinoid character and nearly allied to B. Bowkeri , Sow., but differing in its fewer whorls, broader last whorl, coarser longitudinal liration, and in the

absence of any granular sculpture.

The width of the shell of the type species is 8.5 mm. [1] The height of the shell is 15 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 Melvill J. C. & Ponsonby J. H. (1894). "Descriptions of fifteen new species of South-African terrestrial Mollusca". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6)16: 90-95. page 92. Plate 1, figure 5.
  2. ↑ Herbert D. G. & Mitchell A. (2008). "Phylogenetic relationships of the enigmatic land snail genus Prestonella: the missing African element in the Gondwanan superfamily Orthalicoidea (Mollusca: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 96(1): 203-221. doi : 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01109.x.
  3. ↑ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia . Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN   3-925919-72-4. ISSN   0076-2997.
  4. ↑ Govender V. (2007). "Patterns of Distribution, Diversity and Endemism of Terrestrial Molluscs in South Africa". Thesis. School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal. 219 pp. PDF.
  5. ↑ Breure B. (23 February 2008) "The extended family". Bram's Snail Site, accessed 7 April 2011.
  6. ↑ Herbert D. G. (2007). "Revision of the genus Prestonella (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Orthalicoidea: Bulimulidae s. l.), a distinctive component of the African land snail fauna". African Invertebrates 48(2): 1-19. abstract Archived 2011-09-03 at the Wayback Machine .
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