Tropidophora michaudi

Tropidophora michaudi
Drawing of apertural view of the shell of Tropidophora michaudi
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Pomatiidae
Genus:	Tropidophora
Species:	T. michaudi
Binomial name
Tropidophora michaudi (Grateloup, 1834)[2]
Synonyms
Cyclostoma Michaudi Grateloup, 1840

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:

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.

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]

1. Griffiths, O. (1996). "Tropidophora michaudi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T22344A9370637. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T22344A9370637.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
2. (in Latin) Grateloup (1840). Act. Bord. XI., p. 440, table 3, figure 11.

Further reading

• (in German) 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.