Blanfordia bensoni
| Blanfordia bensoni | |
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| Dorsal view of a live Blanfordia bensoni | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Pomatiopsidae |
| Subfamily: | Pomatiopsinae |
| Genus: | Blanfordia |
| Species: | B. bensoni |
| Binomial name | |
| Blanfordia bensoni (A. Adams, 1861)[2] | |
| Synonyms[2][3] | |
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Blanfordia bensoni is a species of land snail which has an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.[5]
Blanfordia bensoni is the type species of the genus Blanfordia.[3]
Distribution
This species is endemic to Japan.[5] The type locality is "Matsumai, Yesso",[2] Hokkaido.
It is a Vulnerable species.[1]
Description
The height of the shell is 8.5 mm.[6]
 Drawing of apertural view of a shell. The scale is 1 mm. |
 Drawing of Blanfordia bensoni. |
Ecology
This species lives as a terrestrial snail in inland forests.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 (Japanese) "オカマメタニシ". 日本のレッドデータ検索システム [Japanese Red List Data Book], accessed 17 July 2011.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Adams A. (1861). "On some new Genera and Species of Mollusca from the North of China and Japan". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3)8: 299-309. 308.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Davis G. M. (1979). "The origin and evolution of the gastropod family Pomatiopsidae, with emphasis on the Mekong river Triculinae". Academy of natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Monograph 20: 1-120. at Google books.
- ↑ Pilsbry H. A. (1900). "Notices of some new Japanese mollusks". The Nautilus 14(1): 11-12. page 12.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Kameda Y. & Kato M. (2011). "Terrestrial invasion of pomatiopsid gastropods in the heavy-snow region of the Japanese Archipelago". BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 118. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-118.
- ↑ Barker G. M. (2001). Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. In" Barker G. M. (ed.) The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, page 37.