Tropidophora fimbriata
Tropidophora fimbriata is a species of land snail with a gill and an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiidae.
1846 drawing of the shell of Tropidophora fimbriata with its calcareous operculum by Ludwig Karl Georg Pfeiffer.
| Tropidophora fimbriata | |
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| A live but retracted individual of Tropidophora fimbriata haemostoma, showing the operculum in the aperture | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Pomatiidae |
| Genus: | Tropidophora |
| Species: | T. fimbriata |
| Binomial name | |
| Tropidophora fimbriata (Lamarck, 1822) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Cyclostoma fimbriata Lamarck, 1822 | |
This species is found in the Mascarenes. Subspecies include T. f. rodriguesensis and T. f. haemostoma.
Original description
Tropidophora fimbriata was originally described as Cyclostoma fimbriata by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in 1822.[1]
Lamarck's original text (the type description) in Latin language reads as follows:
C. testa ventricoso-conoidea, subperforata, transversim striata, albido-lutescente;
anfractuum margine superiore plicis fimbriato; spira brevi, acuta; apertura lutea. —
Lat. bas. 5½ lin.
References
This article incorporates public domain text from reference.[1]
- (in Latin) Lamarck J.-B. 1822.
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 179.
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