| Tropidophora michaudi | |
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| Drawing of apertural view of the shell of Tropidophora michaudi | |
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Littorinoidea |
| Family: | Pomatiidae |
| Subfamily: | Pomatiinae |
| Genus: | Tropidophora |
| Species: | T. michaudi |
| Binomial name | |
| Tropidophora michaudi Grateloup, 1840[2] |
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| Synonyms | |
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Cyclostoma Michaudi Grateloup, 1840 |
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Tropidophora michaudi is a species of land snail with a gill and an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiidae family.
This species is endemic to Mauritius.[1]
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Tropidophora fimbriata was originally described as Cyclostoma Michaudi by Grateloup in 1840.[2]
Grateloup's original text (the type description) in Latin language reads as follows:
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C. testa perforata, globoso-conica, solida, striatula, carinis 7 — 8 magis minusve prominentibus, acutiusculis cincta, cinerea vel pallide violacea; spira conica, interdum truncata; anfr. 6 convexis, ultimo basi carina validiore, funiculata ab umbilico infundibuliformi, intus spiraliter sulcato, vix pervio separato; apertura subcirculari; perist. albido, breviter expanso, crenulato, marginibus callo albido junctis, columellari dilatato, crasso, subreflexo, perforationem occultante, ad carinam basalem obsolete canaliculato. |
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This article incorporates public domain text from reference.[2]