Tropidophora michaudi | |
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Drawing of apertural view of the shell of Tropidophora michaudi | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Pomatiidae |
Genus: | Tropidophora |
Species: | T. michaudi
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Binomial name | |
Tropidophora michaudi | |
Synonyms | |
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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]
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.
This article incorporates public domain text from reference. [2]