Staffordia daflaensis
| Staffordia daflaensis | |
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| drawing of apertural view of the shell of Staffordia daflaensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Staffordiidae |
| Genus: | Staffordia |
| Species: | S. daflaensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Staffordia daflaensis (Godwin-Austen, 1???)
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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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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 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.