Urocyclus kirki Gray, 1864

Muratov, Igor V., 2010, Terrestrial molluscs of Cabo Delgado and adjacent inland areas of north-eastern Mozambique, African Invertebrates 51 (2), pp. 255-255 : 283

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Urocyclus kirki Gray, 1864
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Urocyclus kirki Gray, 1864

Fig. 65 Urocyclus kirki: Gray 1864: 251 (Near the mouth of the River Zambezi, Mozambique).

A common eastern African species, with a general distribution from southern Tanzania to Zululand in South Africa. Found at a single station inland. Differs from all other species of the family by the large, muscular diverticulum of the atrium with a single large calcareous dart inside.

GRAY, J. 1864. On Urocyclus, a new genus of terrestrial gasteropodous Mollusca from Africa. Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London 32 (2): 250 - 251.