Staffordia staffordi
Staffordia staffordi is a species of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Staffordiidae.
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| A drawing of an apertural view of a shell of Staffordia staffordi | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade limacoid clade |
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| Species: | S. staffordi |
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| Staffordia staffordi Godwin-Austen, 1907[1] | |
The specific name staffordi as well as generic name Staffordia is in honor of Brigadier-General Stafford, who was in command of the punitive force which entered the Dafla Hills for the first time in the winter of 1874-1875.[1]
Distribution
The type locality of this species is Toruputu Peak, Dafla Hills, 7,000 feet (2,100 m), in India.[1]
Description
The shell is moderately solid, with a thick epidermis, very globosely conoid, rounded below.[1] The umbilicus almost hidden.[1] The sculpture is small.[1] Elongate papillae arearranged longitudinally, and differing from all the other species collected in the Dafla Hills.[1] The color is olivaceous ochre.[1] The spire is low.[1] The suture is shallow.[1] The shell has 5 whorls with sides convex above, rather flattened on the periphery of the last whorl.[1] The aperture is lunate, narrow, subvertical, milky white within, rounded below.[1] The peristome is thin, slightly sinuate below, and nearly vertical near the columella.[1]
The width of the shell is 13.2-15.2 mm.[1] The height of the shell is 7.8 mm.[1] The type specimen is not adult.[1]
References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference.[1]
- Godwin-Austen H. H. (1907). Land and freshwater mollusca of India, including South Arabia, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Burma, Pegu, Tenasserim, Malaya Peninsula, Ceylon and other islands of the Indian Ocean; Supplementary to Masers Theobald and Hanley's Conchologica Indica. Taylor and Francis, London. 2: page 185-186, plate CXIII, figure 4.