Tropidophora fimbriata
| Tropidophora fimbriata | |
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| A live but retracted individual of Tropidophora fimbriata haemostoma, showing the operculum in the aperture | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Littorinoidea |
| Family: | Pomatiidae |
| Subfamily: | Pomatiinae |
| Genus: | Tropidophora |
| Species: | T. fimbriata |
| Binomial name | |
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Tropidophora fimbriata (Lamarck, 1822) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Cyclostoma fimbriata Lamarck, 1822 |
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Cyclostoma fimbriata Lamarck, 1822
Tropidophora fimbriata is a species of land snail with a gill and an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiidae.
This species is found in the Mascarenes. Subspecies include T. f. rodriguesensis and T. f. haemostoma.
Tropidophora fimbriata was originally described as Cyclostoma fimbriata by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in 1822.
Lamarck's original text (the type description) in Latin language reads as follows:
C. testa ventricoso-conoidea, subperforata, transversim striata, albido-lutescente; anfractuum margine superiore plicis fimbriato; spira brevi, acuta; apertura lutea. — Lat. bas. 5½ lin.
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