Suboestophora hispanica facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Suboestophora hispanica |
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| A shell of Suboestophora hispanica | |
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| Another view of shell of Suboestophora hispanica | |
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clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
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Helicoidea
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Trissexodontidae
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Suboestophora
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S. hispanica
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| Suboestophora hispanica (Gude, 1910)
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Helicodonta hispanica Gude, 1910 |
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Suboestophora hispanica is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Trissexodontidae within the Helicoidea.
Suboestophora hispanica is the type species of the genus Suboestophora.
Distribution
This species is endemic to Spain. The type locality is Valencia, Spain.
Description
Suboestophora hispanica was originally described under the name Helicodonta hispanica by Gerard Pierre Laurent Kalshoven Gude in 1910.
Gude's original text (the type description) reads as follows:
Shell moderately umbilicated, lenticular, fulvous brown, rather thin,
sub-translucent; the nepionic whorls shining, the remainder dull, finely closely ribbed, the ribs regularly curved and becoming more distant on the last quarter-whorl. Spire depressed, apex prominent, suture shallow. Whorls 5½, a little rounded above, flattened below, obtusely angulated above the periphery, increasing slowly and regularly, the last ascending a little in front. Aperture crescent-shaped, oblique, margins distant, united by a very thin callus on the parietal wall, which is finely granulated. Peristome curved, scarcely thickened, reflexed, livid; upper margin a little arcuate at the junction with the shell-wall, curved slightly forward, then suddenly receding, basal nearly straight, columellar receding a little at first, then curved forward, triangularly dilated longitudinally, and impinging upon the umbilicus, which is deep and cylindrical. Diam. maj. 11, min. 10 mm.; alt. 5 mm.
Hab. — Valencia, Spain. Type in my collection.
