| Staffordia staffordi | |
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| A drawing of an apertural view of a shell of Staffordia staffordi | |
Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Staffordiidae |
| Genus: | Staffordia |
| Species: | S. staffordi
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| Binomial name | |
| Staffordia staffordi
Godwin-Austen, 1907
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Staffordia staffordi is a species of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Staffordiidae.
The specific name staffordi as well as generic name Staffordia is in honor of Brigadier-General Stafford,[ who?] 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]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q 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.