Tudorella sulcata

Tudorella sulcata
Five views of a shell of Tudorella sulcata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Littorinoidea
Family: Pomatiidae
Subfamily: Pomatiinae
Genus: Tudorella
Species: T. sulcata
Binomial name
Tudorella sulcata

Tudorella sulcata is a species of land snail which has an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiidae.

Distribution

This species stricto sensu (T. s. sulcata) occurs in Algeria, France, Portugal and lato sensu (Tudorella sp. pl.) also in Morocco, Spain, Sardinia, Malta[2] Tunisia and Sicily.

References

  1. (in French) Draparnaud J.-P.-R. (1805). Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. Ouvrage posthume. Avec XIII planches. pp. [1-9], j-viij [= 1-8], 1-134, [Pl. 1-13]. Paris, Montpellier. (Plassan, Renaud).
  2. Kolouch L. R. (2003). "Suchozemští, sladkovodní a brakičtí měkkýši ostrovů Malty. [Terrestrial, freshwater, and brackish mollusca of Malta islands]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca 2: 43-50. PDF.

Further reading

  • Jesse R., Véla E. & Pfenninger M. (2011). "Phylogeography of a Land Snail Suggests Trans-Mediterranean Neolithic Transport". PLoS ONE 6(6): e20734. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020734.
  • (in French) Pavon D. (2005). "Tudorella sulcata sulcata (Draparnaud 1805) (Gastropoda: Pomatiidae), une espèce patrimoniale de la malacofaune francaise. Biocosme mesogéen 21: 155-170 (dated 2004, published in 2005).
  • (in French) Véla E., Magnin F., Pavon D. & Pfenninger M. (2008). "Phylogénie moléculaire et données paléobiogéographiques sur le gastéropode terrestre Tudorella sulcata (Draparnaud, 1805) en France et en Algérie orientale". Geodiversitas 30(1): 233-246.


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