Holospira elizabethae

Holospira elizabethae
Drawing of a live individual of Holospira elizabethae from the 1889 original description by Henry Augustus Pilsbry.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily: Urocoptoidea
Family: Urocoptidae
Subfamily: Holospirinae
Genus: Holospira
Species: H. elizabethae
Binomial name
Holospira elizabethae
Pilsbry, 1889[1]

Holospira elizabethae is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Urocoptidae.

Paratypes of this species are located in the Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam.[2]

Contents

Original description

Holospira elizabethae was originally discovered and described by Henry Augustus Pilsbry in 1889.[1] The type locality is Amula village, which is between the towns of Tixtla and Chilapa de Álvarez, in the State of Guerrero, Mexico.

Shell description

Comparison of apertural view of adult and juvenile shell of Holospira elizabethae:

Comparison of basal (umbilical) view of adult and juvenile shell of Holospira elizabethae:

Distribution

References

  1. ^ a b Pilsbry H. A. (14 May 1889). "New and little known American mollusks, no. I." Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 41: 81-89, description is at 81-82, plate 3.
  2. ^ NMR Collection database. accessed 19 June 2009

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