User:0x16w/partula/mirabilis
| Miracle Partula | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Partulidae |
| Genus: | Partula |
| Species: | P. mirabilis
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| Binomial name | |
| Partula mirabilis H. E. Crampton, 1924
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Partula mirabilis is a species of partulid within the genus Partula. The species is rarely referred to as the miracle partula[1], and is endemic Moorea.
Distribution.
[edit]Captive breeding
[edit]P. mirabilis is in the international Partula breeding program and the conservation efforts for this species have been very successful, allowing reintroductions since 2017.[2]
Phylogeny
[edit]Phylogenetic analyses found P. mirabilis is sister to a population of P. clara and a population of P. suturalis vexillum.[3]
Taxonomy
[edit]Original description
[edit]The original description is available online here.
| Partula MiRABiLis, ncw specics. Plate VI, figures 14-20.Shell dextral (reversed in rare mutations); ovate-conic to
elongate-conic, openly or compressly perforate. Whorls 5, slightly convex, the body-whorl flattened toward the lip; suture of the last whorl impressed. The surface is sculptured through- out, but the lines are fewer on the larger whorls, which are shining and generally smooth except in decorticated specimens. Aperture narrowed, elongated, almost oblong in general out- line. Lip sharply beveled, thin, and smooth. A thin, rough- ened callus spreads between the insertions of the lip. Parietal tooth present in almost all instances, but it is seldom prom- inent. Colors: (u) corneous fleshy, apex pale brown (Plate VI, fig. 14); (b) pale brown, with deeper brown transverse strigations (Plate VI, fig. 15), (c) corneous brown, with darker brown, ruddy, or rose-brown spire; (d) deep chocolate brown or seal brown, the s])ire usually lighter (Plate VI, fig. IG); (e) light brown, with tbree revolving bands of deeper brown color, and usually with sutural and basal clouding (Plate VI, fig. 17); (/) encircled by a broad zone of deep brown color, which is separ- ated from the brown sutural and basal areas by narrow corneous lines, often with an asymetrical revolving corneous line through |