Ogasawarana ogasawarana
| Ogasawarana ogasawarana | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Neritimorpha clade Cycloneritimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Helicinoidea |
| Family: | Helicinidae |
| Genus: | Ogasawarana |
| Species: | O. ogasawarana |
| Binomial name | |
| Ogasawarana ogasawarana (Pilsbry, 1902)[2] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Kaliella ogasawarana Pilsbry, 1902[2] | |
Ogasawarana ogasawarana is a species of land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Helicinidae, the helicinids.
Distribution
This species is endemic to Japan.
Description
Ogasawarana ogasawarana was originally described under the name Kaliella ogasawarana by American malacologist Henry Augustus Pilsbry in 1902.[2]
Pilsbry's original text (the type description) appeared in the key and it reads as follows:
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Shell large for the genus, subperforate, conic, pale yellowish-corneous, subtransparent, glossy, smooth except for slight growth-lines. Spire almost straightly conic, the apex obtuse. Whorls 7½, somewhat convex, the last strongly angular at the periphery, moderately convex below. Aperture slightly curved, in crescent form, truncate at the ends; lip thin and acute, the columella concave, with narrowly reflexed margin. Alt. 5, diam. 5 mm. Hahajima, Ogasawara (Y. Hirase, No. 846). |
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References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference.[2]
- ↑ Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). Ogasawarana ogasawarana. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Pilsbry H. A. (1902). "New land Mollusca from Japan and the Bonin Islands". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 54: 25-32.
External links
(Japanese) http://www.biodic.go.jp/rdb_fts/before/495.html