Kempioconcha boivini (Morelet, 1860)

Muratov, Igor V., 2010, Terrestrial molluscs of Cabo Delgado and adjacent inland areas of north-eastern Mozambique, African Invertebrates 51 (2), pp. 255-255 : 269

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5733/afin.051.0203
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7913615
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scientific name	Kempioconcha boivini (Morelet, 1860)
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Kempioconcha boivini (Morelet, 1860) View in CoL

Figs 23 View Figs 15–25 , 60 View Figs 56–61

Glandina boivini: Morelet 1860: 72 View in CoL , pl. 5, fig. 5 (mainland Kenya coast near Mombasa; 18× 8 mm).

A common East and Central African species. Found at ten stations inland. Differs from the following two species of the genus by the proportionally wider shell.

Figs 15–25. Cerastidae: (15) Gittenedouardia metuloides, 6.0×3.6 mm, subadult, stn 1; (16) Rhachistia catenata, 13.2×7.8 mm, stn 11; (17) Rachis cunctatoris, 19.1×8.6 mm, stn 5; (18) Limicena nyasana, 11.8×9.1 mm, subadult, stn 7. Achatinidae: (19) Achatina immaculata, 11.3×9.3 mm, juvenile, stn 1; (20) A. randabeli, 43.8×23.0 mm, stn 9. Subulinidae: (21) Kempioconcha cf. obtusa, 39.1×17.5 mm, two shells composite subadult, stn 14; (22) K. kirki, 30.2×13.9 mm, stn 6; (23) K. boivini, 17.8×9.1 mm, stn 5; (24) K. cf. subolivacea, 19.6×7.3 mm, stn 19; (25) K. conradti (von Martens, 1895), 15.4×6.4 mm, stn 5.

Figs 56–61. Pomatiidae: (56) Tropidophora ligata, shell 15.5×15.3 mm, stn 7; (57) T. zanguebarica, shell 10.0×9.5 mm, stn 7; Cerastidae: (58) Rhachistia catenata, shell 10.0×6.3 mm, subadult, stn 1; Achatinidae:(59) Achatina immaculata,shell 102×56 mm,stn 1; Subulinidae:(60)Kempioconcha boivini, shell 16.0×8.4 mm, stn 1; (61) K. conradti, shell 13.7×6.2 mm, stn 8.