Tropidophora michaudi
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Pomatiidae |
| Genus: | Tropidophora |
| Species: | T. michaudi
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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
[edit]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.
Shell description
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Lateral view of the shell -
Basal view of the shell
References
[edit]This article incorporates public domain text from reference.[2]
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b c (in Latin) Grateloup (1840). Act. Bord. XI., p. 440, table 3, figure 11.
Further reading
[edit]- (in German) Pfeiffer L. K. G. (1846). Die gedeckelten Lungenschnecken : (Helicinaceae et Cyclostomaceae): in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. II. volume. Bauer und Raspe, Nürnberg. page 138.
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