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Staffordia daflaensis

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Staffordia daflaensis
drawing of apertural view of the shell of Staffordia daflaensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Staffordiidae
Genus: Staffordia
Species:
S. daflaensis
Binomial name
Staffordia daflaensis

Staffordia daflaensis is a species of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Staffordiidae.

The specific name daflaensis is apparently according to its area of distribution, Dafla Hills in India.

Distribution

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The type locality of this species is "Shengorh Peak", 7,000 feet (2,100 m), Dafla Hills in India.[1]

Godwin-Austen (1907)[1] have found this species very abundant in Dafla Hills.

Description

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The shell is depressedly tumidly conoid, umbilicated, solid, rather flat on base.[1] The sculpture is very regular, longitudinal, sharply defined, broad-ridged ribbing.[1] Color is rich olivaceous with ochre tint.[1] It vary in colour and size, often being of a pale ochraceous-grey tint.[1] The spire is low, sides convex.[1] The suture is shallow, adpressed.[1] The shell has 6 whorls, that are rapidly increasing.[1] The last whorl is rounded. The aperture is broadly ovate, oblique, milky white within.[1] The peristome is acute, sinuous above and slightly so below, much reflected at umbilical margin.[1] The columellar margin is very oblique and descending.[1]

The width of the shell is 16.2-23.5 mm.[1] The height of the shell is 8.0-9.4 mm.[1]

References

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This article incorporates public domain text from the reference.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o 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, plate CXIII, figure 1.