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Blanfordia bensoni

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Species of gastropod

Blanfordia bensoni
Dorsal view of a live Blanfordia bensoni
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. bensoni
Binomial name
Blanfordia bensoni
(A. Adams, 1861)
Synonyms
  • Tomichia Bensoni A. Adams, 1861
  • Blanfordia hirasei Pilsbry, 1900
  • Pomatiopsis Hirasei Pilsbry, 1900

Blanfordia bensoni is a species of land snail which has an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.

Blanfordia bensoni is the type species of the genus Blanfordia.

Distribution

This species is endemic to Japan. The type locality is "Matsumai, Yesso", Hokkaido.

It is a Vulnerable species.

Description

The height of the shell is 8.5 mm.

Drawing of apertural view of a shell. The scale is 1 mm.
Drawing of Blanfordia bensoni.

Ecology

This species lives as a terrestrial snail in inland forests.

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. Pilsbry H. A. (1900). "Notices of some new Japanese mollusks". The Nautilus 14(1): 11-12. page 12.
  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.
  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.
  5. (in Japanese) "オカマメタニシ" Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine. 日本のレッドデータ検索システム , accessed 17 July 2011.
  6. Barker G. M. (2001). Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. In" Barker G. M. (ed.) The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, page 37.
Taxon identifiers
Blanfordia bensoni


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