Tropidophora michaudi
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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.
This species is endemic to Mauritius.[1]
Original description
Tropidophora fimbriata was originally described as Cyclostoma Michaudi by Jean-Pierre Sylvestre de 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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Shell description
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Lateral view of the shell
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Basal view of the shell
References
This article incorporates public domain text from reference.[2]
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Further reading
- Template:In lang Pfeiffer L. K. G. (1846). Die gedeckelten Lungenschnecken : (Helicinaceae et Cyclostomaceae): in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. II. volume. Bauer und Raspe, Nürnberg. page 138.