Tropidophora insularis (Pfeiffer, 1852)

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

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5733/afin.051.0203

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7914453

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scientific name

Tropidophora insularis (Pfeiffer, 1852)
status

 

Tropidophora insularis (Pfeiffer, 1852) View in CoL View at ENA

Fig. 7 View Figs 3–14

Cyclostoma insulare: Pfeiffer 1852: 64 View in CoL (“ Isle de France ” – error; 13½ × 17 mm).

A common species, recorded from seven inland stations, with a general distribution from South Africa to Kenya. “Described from a set in the Cuming collection labelled “ Mauritius,” a locality which Pfeiffer amended to “Natal” in his own working copy of his Monograph” (Connolly 1939: 547). Similar to, and probably a sister species of, T. ligata , with different ecological preferences since they do not co-occur at least in north-eastern Mozambique. Cases of co-occurrence in South Africa should be re-evaluated. Can easily be distinguished from T. ligata by the fairly strong spiral sculpture on the periphery as well as on the rest of the shell, the sculpture being weaker and not as dense and regular as in T. nyasana View in CoL . It is much larger but otherwise very similar to the following species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Littorinimorpha

Family

Pomatiidae

Genus

Tropidophora

Loc

Tropidophora insularis (Pfeiffer, 1852)

Muratov, Igor V. 2010
2010
Loc

Cyclostoma insulare:

Pfeiffer 1852: 64
1852
Loc

T. ligata

: Muller 1774
1774
Loc

T. ligata

: Muller 1774
1774
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