Tropidophora
| Tropidophora | |
|---|---|
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| Two long-dead remnants of the extinct species Tropidophora carinata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Littorinoidea |
| Family: | Pomatiidae |
| Subfamily: | Pomatiinae |
| Genus: | Tropidophora Troschel, 1847 |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 95 specific names, unknown number of true biological species | |
Tropidophora is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Pomatiidae.[2]
Distribution
These are large, split-sole snails are found in Tanzania,[2] Madagascar, the Mascarenes, the Comoros and South Africa.
95-99% of Tropidophora species are endemic to Madagascar.[3]
Species
The present classification of this genus into three subgenera, 95 species and 142 varieties is complex and confused. This classification is best ignored temporarily, as it is based on subtle morphological varieties among small samples. It is also assumed that many smaller species remain to be discovered.[1]
Species within the genus Tropidophora include:
- Tropidophora articulata (Gray, 1834)
- † Tropidophora bewsheri
- † Tropidophora bipartita
- Tropidophora carinata (Born, 1780) - possibly extinct
- Tropidophora deburghiae Reeve, 1861
- Tropidophora deflorata (Morelet, 1876)
- † Tropidophora desmazuresi Crosse, 1873
- Tropidophora fimbriata (Lamarck, 1822)
- Tropidophora michaudi Grateloup, 1840 - possibly extinct
- Tropidophora perinetensis Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965
- Tropidophora semidecussata
- † Tropidophora semilineata
- Tropidophora tricarinata
- Tropidophora zanguebarica (Petit, 1850)[2]
External links
References
- 1 2 Emberton K. C. (January 2008). "Cryptic, genetically extremely divergent, polytypic, convergent, and polymorphic taxa in Madagascan Tropidophora (Gastropoda: Pomatiasidae)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 55 (3): 183–208. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1995.tb01059.x.
- 1 2 3 Rowson B., Warren B. H. & Ngereza C. F. (2010). "Terrestrial molluscs of Pemba Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania, and its status as an "oceanic" island". ZooKeys 70: 1-39. doi:10.3897/zookeys.70.762.
- ↑ A GUIDE TO THE LAND SNAILS OF RANOMAFANA NATIONAL PARK, MADAGASCAR, last change 2 November 2007, accessed 29 June 2009 Archived November 21, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
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