Blanfordia japonica

Blanfordia japonica
Drawing of dorsal view of Blanfordia japonica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Pomatiopsidae
Subfamily: Pomatiopsinae
Genus: Blanfordia
Species: B. japonica
Binomial name
Blanfordia japonica
(A. Adams, 1861)[2]
Synonyms[2][3]
  • 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.[4]

Distribution

This species is endemic to Japan.[4] The type locality is Sado.[2]

It is a Near Threatened species.[1]

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.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 (Japanese) "イツマデガイ". 日本のレッドデータ検索システム [Japanese Red List Data Book], accessed 17 July 2011.
  2. 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.
  3. ↑ 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.
  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.

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