Suboestophora hispanica

Suboestophora hispanica
A shell of Suboestophora hispanica
Another view of shell of Suboestophora hispanica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Helicoidea
Family:
Trissexodontidae
Genus:
Suboestophora
Species:
S. hispanica
Binomial name
Suboestophora hispanica
(Gude, 1910)[2]
Synonyms

Helicodonta hispanica Gude, 1910

Suboestophora hispanica is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Trissexodontidae within the Helicoidea.[3]

Suboestophora hispanica is the type species of the genus Suboestophora.

Distribution

This species is endemic to Spain. The type locality is Valencia, Spain.[2]

Description

Suboestophora hispanica was originally described under the name Helicodonta hispanica by Gerard Pierre Laurent Kalshoven Gude in 1910.[2]

Gude's original text (the type description) reads as follows:

Shell moderately umbilicated, lenticular, fulvous brown, rather thin,

sub-translucent; the nepionic whorls shining, the remainder dull, finely closely ribbed, the ribs regularly curved and becoming more distant on the last quarter-whorl. Spire depressed, apex prominent, suture shallow. Whorls 5½, a little rounded above, flattened below, obtusely angulated above the periphery, increasing slowly and regularly, the last ascending a little in front. Aperture crescent-shaped, oblique, margins distant, united by a very thin callus on the parietal wall, which is finely granulated. Peristome curved, scarcely thickened, reflexed, livid; upper margin a little arcuate at the junction with the shell-wall, curved slightly forward, then suddenly receding, basal nearly straight, columellar receding a little at first, then curved forward, triangularly dilated longitudinally, and impinging upon the umbilicus, which is deep and cylindrical. Diam. maj. 11, min. 10 mm.; alt. 5 mm.

Hab. — Valencia, Spain.

Type in my collection.

1910 photo of the shell from the original description
Photo showing apical, apertural and umbilical view of a shell

References

This article incorporates public domain text from reference.[2]

  1. ^ Martínez-Ortí, A. (2011). "Suboestophora hispanica". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T21124A9248662. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T21124A9248662.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d Gude G. P. L. K. (1910) "Description of a new species of Helicodonta from Spain". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 9(2): 124-125.
  3. ^ "Suboestophora Ortiz de Zarate Lopez 1962". Fauna Europaea, accessed 13 January 2011.