Blanfordia bensoni
Blanfordia bensoni | |
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Dorsal view of a live Blanfordia bensoni | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
Family: | Pomatiopsidae |
Subfamily: | Pomatiopsinae |
Genus: | Blanfordia |
Species: | B. bensoni |
Binomial name | |
Blanfordia bensoni | |
Synonyms[1][2] | |
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Blanfordia bensoni is a species of land snail which has an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.[4]
Blanfordia bensoni is the type species of the genus Blanfordia.[2]
Distribution
This species is endemic to Japan.[4] The type locality is "Matsumai, Yesso",[1] Hokkaido.
It is a Vulnerable species.[5]
Description
The height of the shell is 8.5 mm.[6]
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![]() Drawing of Blanfordia bensoni. |
Ecology
This species lives as a terrestrial snail in inland forests.[4]
References
- 1 2 3 Adams A. (1861). "On some new Genera and Species of Mollusca from the North of China and Japan". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3)8: 299-309. 308.
- 1 2 Davis G. M. (1979). "The origin and evolution of the gastropod family Pomatiopsidae, with emphasis on the Mekong river Triculinae". Academy of natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Monograph 20: 1-120. at Google books.
- ↑ Pilsbry H. A. (1900). "Notices of some new Japanese mollusks". The Nautilus 14(1): 11-12. page 12.
- 1 2 3 Kameda Y. & Kato M. (2011). "Terrestrial invasion of pomatiopsid gastropods in the heavy-snow region of the Japanese Archipelago". BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 118. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-118.
- ↑ (in Japanese) "オカマメタニシ". 日本のレッドデータ検索システム [Japanese Red List Data Book], accessed 17 July 2011.
- ↑ Barker G. M. (2001). Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. In" Barker G. M. (ed.) The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, page 37.
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