Holospira elizabethae

Holospira elizabethae
Drawing of a live individual of Holospira elizabethae from the 1889 original description by Henry Augustus Pilsbry.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Urocoptidae
Genus:	Holospira
Species:	H. elizabethae
Binomial name
Holospira elizabethae Pilsbry, 1889[1]

Drawing of a cross section of the shell of Holospira elizabethae, showing that the columella is hollow

Holospira elizabethae is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Urocoptidae.

Paratypes of this species are in the collection of the Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam.[2]

Original description

Holospira elizabethae was originally discovered and described by Henry Augustus Pilsbry in 1889.[1] The type locality is Amula village, which is between the towns of Tixtla and Chilapa de Álvarez, in the State of Guerrero, Mexico.

Shell description

Comparison of apertural view of adult and juvenile shells of Holospira elizabethae:

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  adult shell
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  juvenile shell

Comparison of basal (umbilical) views of adult and juvenile shells of Holospira elizabethae:

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  adult shell
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  juvenile shell

Distribution

This species occurs in Mexico.

References

1. Pilsbry H. A. (14 May 1889). "New and little known American mollusks, no. I." Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 41: 81-89, description is at 81-82, plate 3.
2. NMR Collection database Archived 2011-06-08 at the Wayback Machine. accessed 19 June 2009

External links

• Photo of the shell of Holospira elizabethae
• in Manual of Conchology 15
  • page 99-100
  • plate 15, figure 6-15
  • plate 26, figure 27 (figure 27 does not seem like Holospira elizabethae although this figure is mentioned as this twice in the book)