Blanfordia japonica
Blanfordia japonica | |
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Drawing of dorsal view of Blanfordia japonica | |
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. japonica |
Binomial name | |
Blanfordia japonica | |
Synonyms[2][3] | |
Blanfordia japonica is a species of land snail which has an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.[4]
Distribution
This species is endemic to Japan.[4] The type locality is Sado.[2]
It is a Near Threatened species.[1]
Description
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![]() Drawing of lateral view of a shell. The scale is 1 mm. |
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Blanfordia japonica on the forest floor.
Ecology
This species lives from coastal areas to inland forests.[4]
References
- 1 2 (in Japanese) "イツマデガイ". 日本のレッドデータ検索システム [Japanese Red List Data Book], accessed 17 July 2011.
- 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.
- ↑ 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. page 117.
- 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.
External links
- (in Japanese) 江川 和文 Ekawa K. (1985). "福井県産イツマデガイの諸知見 [A Note on Blanfordia japonica from Fukui Prefecture]". ちりぼたん Newsletter of the Malacological Society of Japan 15(4): 93-97. CiNii.
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