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Sheldonia fuscicolor

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Sheldonia fuscicolor
A live individual of Sheldonia fuscicolor
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
clade Sigmurethra

clade limacoid clade
Superfamily: Helicarionoidea
Family: Urocyclidae
Subfamily: Sheldoniinae
Genus: Sheldonia
Species: S. fuscicolor
Binomial name
Sheldonia fuscicolor
(Melvill & Ponsonby, 1892)
Synonyms

Vitrina fuscicolor Melvill & Ponsonby, 1892
Kerkophorus fuscicolor (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1892)
Microkerkus fuscicolor (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1892)

Sheldonia fuscicolor, common name the montane tail-wagger snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Urocyclidae.

The distribution of this species includes South Africa.

References

  1. Melvill J. C. & Ponsonby (1892). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History p. 240, plate 13, figure 10.
  2. Connolly M. (1939). "Monographic Survey of South-African Non-marine Mollusca". Annals of the South African Museum 33: 1-660; pls. 1-19. pages 141-142.
  3. Armstrong A. J. & Brand J. F. (2012). "Invertebrates on isolated peaks in the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park World Heritage Site, South Africa". Koedoe - African Protected Area Conservation and Science 54(1): 10 pp. doi:10.4102/koedoe.v54i1.1082
Taxon identifiers
Sheldonia fuscicolor


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