Blanfordia simplex
| Blanfordia simplex | |
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| A pair of Blanfordia simplex mating on the forest floor. | |
| 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. simplex |
| Binomial name | |
| Blanfordia simplex Pilsbry, 1902[2] | |
| Synonyms[3] | |
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Blanfordia japonica var. simplex Pilsbry, 1902 | |
Blanfordia simplex is a species of land snail that has an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.[4]
Henry Augustus Pilsbry described it as Blanfordia japonica var. simplex in 1902.[2] He has elevated this taxon to specific level in 1903.[5]
Distribution
This species is endemic to Japan.[4] It occurs widely along the Sea of Japan.[4] The type locality is Nishigo, Uzen Province, Honshu.[2]
It is a Near Threatened species.[1]
Description
Blanfordia simplex has a shell with 4.1-5.1 whorls.[3] Pilsbry (1902)[2] described the first whorl to be more or less worn.[2] The color of the shell is yellowish-olivaceous.[2] It has the lip hardly visible, only a mere trifle expanded.[2]
The width of the shell is 3.7-4.2 mm.[3] The height of the shell is 5.9-6.9 mm.[3]
 Drawing of apertural view of a shell. The scale is 1 mm. |
 Drawing of lateral view of a shell. The scale is 1 mm. |
The shell of Blanfordia simplex is shorter and broader than that of Blanfordia bensoni.[2]
Ecology
This species lives on coastal dunes and in littoral forests.[4]
References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference[2]
- 1 2 (Japanese) "ヒメオカマメタニシ". 日本のレッドデータ検索システム [Japanese Red List Data Book], accessed 17 July 2011.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Pilsbry H. A. (1902). "New land Mollusca from Japan and the Bonin Islands". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 54: 25-32. page 26.
- 1 2 3 4 Bartsch P. (1936). "Molluscan intermediate hosts of the Asiatic blood fluke, Schistosoma japonicum, and species confused with them". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 95(5): 1-60. pages 14-15.
- 1 2 3 4 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.
- ↑ Pilsbry H. A. & Hirase Y. (1903). "New land shell of the Japanese Empire". The Nautilus 16: 114-117.
External links
- "Blanfordia japonica simplex". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
- Pilsbry H. A. (1915). "The Japanese species of Blanfordia". The Nautilus 29(1): 1-4. page 2, figure 3, 3a.