Trochonanina albopicta (von Martens, 1869)

Muratov, Igor V., 2010, Terrestrial molluscs of Cabo Delgado and adjacent inland areas of north-eastern Mozambique, African Invertebrates 51 (2), pp. 255-255 : 280

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7914585

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scientific name

Trochonanina albopicta (von Martens, 1869)
status

 

Trochonanina albopicta (von Martens, 1869) View in CoL

Fig. 49 View Figs 46–52

Nanina mossambicensis var. albopicta: von Martens 1869 a: 56 , pl. 1, fig. 2 (East Africa; 11× 18 mm).

Ledoulxia albopicta (von Martens, 1869) View in CoL : Connolly 1925: 135.

A common East African species, with a general distribution from southern Kenya to central Mozambique. Found at four stations inland. Possibly just a colour variety of Trochonanina mossambicensis (Pfeiffer, 1855) , as it was originally described by von Martens. Can easily be recognized by the characteristic pattern of lighter, nontranslucent specks oriented in spiral lines on a darker, semi-translucent, corneous background, as well as alternating zones of lighter and darker close-set axial riblets on the upper side of the shell with only microscopic spiral striation on the base. The shell illustrated here is much faded.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Stylommatophora

Family

Urocyclidae

Genus

Trochonanina

Loc

Trochonanina albopicta (von Martens, 1869)

Muratov, Igor V. 2010
2010
Loc

Nanina mossambicensis var. albopicta:

von Martens 1869: 56
1869
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