Prestonella nuptialis

Prestonella nuptialis
Drawing of abapertural view of a shell of Prestonella nuptialis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily: Orthalicoidea
Family: Prestonellidae (n.a.)
Genus: Prestonella
Species: P. nuptialis
Binomial name
Prestonella nuptialis
(Melvill & Ponsonby, 1894)[1]
Synonyms[1]

Buliminus nuptialis Melvill & Ponsonby, 1894

Prestonella nuptialis is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Prestonellidae. cf.[2][3]

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Distribution

This species is endemic to Eastern Cape,[4] South Africa.[5][6]

The type locality is Craigie Burn, Somerset East, South Africa.[1]

Description

Prestonella nuptialis was described by two British malacologists James Cosmo Melvill (1845-1929) and John Henry Ponsonby-Fane (1848-1916) in 1894.[1] The type description reads in Latin and the English language as follows:[1]

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Buliminus nuptialis, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 5.)

B. testa angustissime umbilicata, delicatula, tenui, succineo-brunnea; anfractibus quatuor, tribus supra parvis, ultimo perlato, rapide accrescente, effuso, undique longitudinaliter oblique rude liratis; apertura oblonga; peristomate simplici, tenui, apud umbilicum fere clausum, reflexo. Long. 15, lat. 8·50 mill.

Hab. Craigie Burn, Somerset East (Mrs. Mary Layard Barber). In coll. E. L. Layard.

A small delicate shell, of succinoid character and nearly allied to B. Bowkeri, Sow., but differing in its fewer whorls, broader last whorl, coarser longitudinal liration, and in the absence of any granular sculpture.

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The width of the shell of the type species is 8.5 mm.[1] The height of the shell is 15 mm.[1]

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference [1]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Melvill J. C. & Ponsonby J. H. (1894). "Descriptions of fifteen new species of South-African terrestrial Mollusca". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6)16: 90-95. page 92. Plate 1, figure 5.
  2. ^ Herbert D. G. & Mitchell A. (2008). "Phylogenetic relationships of the enigmatic land snail genus Prestonella: the missing African element in the Gondwanan superfamily Orthalicoidea (Mollusca: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 96(1): 203-221. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01109.x.
  3. ^ Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3925919724. ISSN 0076-2997. http://www.archive.org/details/malacologia47122005inst. 
  4. ^ Govender V. (2007). "Patterns of Distribution, Diversity and Endemism of Terrestrial Molluscs in South Africa". Thesis. School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal. 219 pp. PDF.
  5. ^ Breure B. (23 February 2008) "The extended family". Bram's Snail Site, accessed 7 April 2011.
  6. ^ Herbert D. G. (2007). "Revision of the genus Prestonella (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Orthalicoidea: Bulimulidae s. l.), a distinctive component of the African land snail fauna". African Invertebrates 48(2): 1-19. abstract.

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