Madagasikara johnsoni
Madagasikara johnsoni | |
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Apertural view of a shell of Madagasikara johnsoni | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha |
Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
Family: | Pachychilidae |
Genus: | Madagasikara |
Species: | M. johnsoni |
Binomial name | |
Madagasikara johnsoni (E. A. Smith, 1882)[1] | |
Synonyms[2] | |
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Madagasikara johnsoni is a species of tropical freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Pachychilidae.[2]
Distribution
This species is endemic to Madagascar.[2] The only precisely known locality is in Ankara Sontsitra National Park, West Madagaskar.[2]
The type locality was given as "River Kamony, in the north-west of the island",[1] but the thereabouts of this locality has not been exactly determined.[2] The most detailed version of the type locality is that of the Kamoro River drainage in Mahajanga Province, north-west Madagascar.[2]
Description
Madagasikara johnsoni was originally discovered and described (under the name Melanatria johnsoni) by Edgar Albert Smith in 1882.[1]
The shell is large, elongate-pyramidal, turreted, thick, covered with an olive epidermis.[1] It is closely lineated or strigate with longitudinal lines of a darker tint.[1] The shell has nine whorls.[1][2] Whorls are very slightly convex beneath, strongly spirally ribbed and grooved.[1] The ribs are six in number on the upper whorls and rounded; the two above are much more slender than the four beneath; the uppermost borders the suture; the next lies in the concavity at the top of the whorls; and the rest surround the slight convexity, and are three times as broad as the sulci separating them.[1] All the whorls, with the exception of the last four, are coronated at the slight angle below the excavation with very short, hollow, oblique spinules.[1] Some of the spiral grooves exhibit rows of fine granules.[1] The last whorl descends somewhat, giving the shell a slightly distorted appearance.[1] It is girded with about twelve transverse costae, a few at the base being smaller than five principal ones around the middle.[1]
The aperture is bluish within, faintly stained with olive-brown near the margins.[1] The peristome widely and deeply sinuated on the outer lip in the concavity of the whorl, arcuate and prominent in the middle, then shallowly sinuated again.[1] Columellar margin is thickened, free, arcuate, reflexed, ending in a distinct basal sinus.[1]
The width of the shell is 24-28.9 mm.[1][2] The height of the shell is 69.9-77.7 mm.[2] The width of the aperture is 14.0-14.2 mm.[2] The height of the aperture is 20.5-21.0 mm.[2]
There is not known description of operculum.[2] There is also not known anatomy of this species.[2] Reproduction strategy is also unknown.[2]
References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference[1]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 Smith E. A. (1882). "A contribution to the Molluscan fauna of Madagascar". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1882: 375-390. pages 383-384, plate 22, figure 6-7.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 Köhler, F. & Glaubrecht, M. (2010). "Uncovering an overlooked radiation: molecular phylogeny and biogeography of Madagascar’s endemic river snails (Caenogastropoda: Pachychilidae: Madagasikara gen. nov.). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 99: 867-894. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01390.x