Sinployea decorticata

Sinployea decorticata was a species of land snail, a gastropod mollusk in the Charopidae family. It was endemic to the Cook Islands.

Contents 1 Shell description 2 Distribution 3 Habitat 4 References 5 Further reading

Shell description

Sinployea decorticata was originally discovered and described under the name Pitys decorticata by American naturalist Andrew Garrett in 1872.^[2]

Garrett's original text (the type description) reads as follows:

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Shell subdiscoid, openly umbilicate, thin, subpellucid, cinereous, under a brownish horn-colored epidermis, adults decorticated, rarely with radiating dashes of reddish brown, arcuately ribbed, ribs lamellar, regular, rather closely set, continued on the base, interstices very finely striated; spire flatly convex; suture channeled; whorls 5, convex, slowly increasing, last one convexly declivous above, rounded beneath, obsoletely angular on the periphery; umbilicus deep, exposing the whorls, about a fourth the diameter of the shell; aperture oblique, orbicular luniform; peristome thin, simple; parietal region very thinly callosed.

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The width of the shell is 4 mm. The height of the shell is 2 mm.^[2]

Type specimen are stored in the collection of Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.^[2]

Distribution

Type locality is Rarotonga Island, Cook Islands.^[2]

Habitat

Andrew Garrett found this species as "a common species found on the ground in a mountain ravine".^[2]

References

This article incorporates public domain text from reference.^[2]

Further reading

• Solem A. (7 January 1983) Endodontoid land snails from Pacific Islands (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Sigmurethra). Part II. Families Punctidae and Charopidae, Zoogeography. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, ISSN 0015-0754. Image of Sinployea decorticata is on the page 109, text on page 110.