Prestonella nuptialis
| Prestonella nuptialis | |
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| Drawing of abapertural view of a shell of Prestonella nuptialis from its type description. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
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clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Orthalicoidea |
| Family: | Bothriembryontidae |
| Subfamily: | Prestonellinae |
| Genus: | Prestonella |
| Species: | P. nuptialis |
| Binomial name | |
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Prestonella nuptialis (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1894) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Buliminus nuptialis Melvill & Ponsonby, 1894 |
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clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Buliminus nuptialis Melvill & Ponsonby, 1894
Prestonella nuptialis is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Bothriembryontidae.
It was previously classified within Prestonellidae. cf.
This species is endemic to Eastern Cape,South Africa.
The type locality is Craigie Burn, Somerset East, South Africa.
Prestonella nuptialis was described by two British malacologists James Cosmo Melvill (1845-1929) and John Henry Ponsonby-Fane (1848-1916) in 1894. The type description reads in Latin and the English language as follows:
Buliminus nuptialis, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 5.)
B. testa angustissime umbilicata, delicatula, tenui, succineo-brunnea; anfractibus quatuor, tribus supra parvis, ultimo perlato, rapide accrescente, effuso, undique longitudinaliter oblique rude liratis; apertura oblonga; peristomate simplici, tenui, apud umbilicum fere clausum, reflexo. Long. 15, lat. 8·50 mill.
Hab. Craigie Burn, Somerset East (Mrs. Mary Layard Barber). In coll. E. L. Layard.
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