Tropidophora michaudi

Tropidophora michaudi
Drawing of apertural view of the shell of Tropidophora michaudi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Littorinoidea
Family: Pomatiidae
Subfamily: Pomatiinae
Genus: Tropidophora
Species: T. michaudi
Binomial name
Tropidophora michaudi
Grateloup, 1840[2]
Synonyms

Cyclostoma Michaudi Grateloup, 1840

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

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.

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Shell description

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. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  2. 1 2 3 (Latin) Grateloup (1840). Act. Bord. XI., p. 440, table 3, figure 11.

Further reading

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