Suboestophora hispanica
| Suboestophora hispanica | |
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| A shell of Suboestophora hispanica | |
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| Another view of shell of Suboestophora hispanica | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
| Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
| Family: | Trissexodontidae |
| Genus: | Suboestophora |
| Species: | S. hispanica |
| Binomial name | |
| Suboestophora hispanica (Gude, 1910)[2] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Helicodonta hispanica Gude, 1910 | |
Suboestophora hispanica is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Trissexodontidae within the Helicoidea.[3]
Suboestophora hispanica is the type species of the genus Suboestophora.
Distribution
This species is endemic to Spain. The type locality is Valencia, Spain.[2]
Description
Suboestophora hispanica was originally described under the name Helicodonta hispanica by Gerard Pierre Laurent Kalshoven Gude in 1910.[2]
Gude's original text (the type description) reads as follows:
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Shell moderately umbilicated, lenticular, fulvous brown, rather thin, sub-translucent; the nepionic whorls shining, the remainder dull, finely closely ribbed, the ribs regularly curved and becoming more distant on the last quarter-whorl. Spire depressed, apex prominent, suture shallow. Whorls 5½, a little rounded above, flattened below, obtusely angulated above the periphery, increasing slowly and regularly, the last ascending a little in front. Aperture crescent-shaped, oblique, margins distant, united by a very thin callus on the parietal wall, which is finely granulated. Peristome curved, scarcely thickened, reflexed, livid; upper margin a little arcuate at the junction with the shell-wall, curved slightly forward, then suddenly receding, basal nearly straight, columellar receding a little at first, then curved forward, triangularly dilated longitudinally, and impinging upon the umbilicus, which is deep and cylindrical. Diam. maj. 11, min. 10 mm.; alt. 5 mm. Hab. — Valencia, Spain. Type in my collection. |
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 1910 photo of the shell from the original description |
 Photo showing apical, apertural and umbilical view of a shell |
References
This article incorporates public domain text from reference.[2]
- ↑ Mollusc Specialist Group (1996) Suboestophora hispanica.2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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Gude G. P. L. K. (1910) "Description of a new species of Helicodonta from Spain". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 9(2): 124-125. - ↑ "Suboestophora Ortiz de Zarate Lopez 1962". Fauna Europaea, accessed 13 January 2011.