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Tropidophora michaudi

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Species of gastropod

Tropidophora michaudi
Drawing of apertural view of the shell of Tropidophora michaudi
Conservation status

Data Deficient  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Pomatiidae
Genus: Tropidophora
Species: T. michaudi
Binomial name
Tropidophora michaudi
(Grateloup, 1834)
Synonyms

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.

Original description

Tropidophora fimbriata was originally described as Cyclostoma Michaudi by Jean-Pierre Sylvestre de Grateloup in 1840.

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.

Shell description

  • Lateral view of the shell Lateral view of the shell
  • Basal view of the shell Basal view of the shell

References

This article incorporates public domain text from reference.

  1. ^ Griffiths, O. (1996). "Tropidophora michaudi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T22344A9370637. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T22344A9370637.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  2. ^ (in Latin) Grateloup (1840). Act. Bord. XI., p. 440, table 3, figure 11.

Further reading

Taxon identifiers
Tropidophora michaudi


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