Tropidophora zanguebarica ( Petit, 1850 )

Muratov, Igor V., 2010, Terrestrial molluscs of Cabo Delgado and adjacent inland areas of north-eastern Mozambique, African Invertebrates 51 (2), pp. 255-255 : 263

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scientific name	Tropidophora zanguebarica ( Petit, 1850 )
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Figs 8, 57

Cyclostoma zanguebarica: Petit 1850: 53 , pl. 3, fig. 5 (Ile de Zanzibar; 10–12 × 10–12 mm).

Recorded from all three stations on Cabo Delgado, with a general coastal distribution from Kenya to Mozambique. Its relations with T. letourneuxi (Ancey in Bourguignat, 1887) should be re-evaluated (see remarks in Rowson 2007: 432). I prefer to use the earlier name here since variability of the shells from Cabo Delgado allows the application of both names. Resembles a small T. insularis but, unlike that species, co-occurs with T. ligata . Possibly just a coastal variation of T. insularis with size variability from 10.5×10.5 to 13.0×12.0 mm at a single locality.