Tropidophora michaudi
Tropidophora michaudi is a species of land snail with a gill and an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiidae.
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Pomatiidae |
| Genus: | Tropidophora |
| Species: | T. michaudi |
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Original description
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
Lateral view of the shell
Basal view of the shell
References
This article incorporates public domain text from reference.[2]
- Griffiths O. (1996). Tropidophora michaudi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
- (in Latin) Grateloup (1840). Act. Bord. XI., p. 440, table 3, figure 11.
Further reading
- (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.