Tulotoma magnifica

Tulotoma magnifica
Tulotoma magnifica on mud
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Viviparoidea
Family: Viviparidae
Genus: Tulotoma
Haldeman, 1840[2]
Species: T. magnifica
Binomial name
Tulotoma magnifica
(Conrad, 1834)[3]
Synonyms

Paludina magnifica Conrad, 1834

Tulotoma magnifica, common name Alabama Live-bearing Snail or tulotoma, is a species of freshwater gastropod in the Viviparidae family. It is endemic to Alabama, the United States.

Description

The shell is large, solid, thick and imperforate.[4] The shape of the shell is obtusely conic.[4] The spire is elevated.[4] Whorls are flattened, nodulous and carinated.[4] The peristome is thin and continuous.[4]

The operculum is concentric, subtriangular, with the inner margin reflected forming an elevated marginal fold.[4]

Animal with a moderate foot, not produced beyond the snout.[4] The snout is small.[4] Radula is multicuspid.[4]

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference[4]

  1. ^ Bogan A. E. (2000). Tulotoma magnifica. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  2. ^ Haldeman S. S. (1840). A monograph of the freshwater univalve mollusca of the United States, including notices of species in other parts of North America 1(2): 34-36. Plate 11.
  3. ^ Conrad T. A. (1834). New fresh water shells of the United States : with coloured illustrations, and a monograph of the genus Anculotus of Say : also a synopsis of the American Naiades. Philadelphia. Page 48-49. Plate 8, figure 4.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Walker B. (1918). "A synopsis of the classification of the freshwater Mollusca of North America, north of Mexico, and a catalogue of the more recently described species, with notes". Miscellaneous Publications 6: 214 pp., 1 plate, 233 figures. page 26.

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