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词条 Staffordia staffordi
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  1. Distribution

  2. Description

  3. References

  4. External links

{{Taxobox
| image = Staffordia staffordi shell.png
| image_caption = A drawing of an apertural view of a shell of Staffordia staffordi
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Mollusca
| classis = Gastropoda
| unranked_superfamilia = clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
clade limacoid clade
| superfamilia = Staffordioidea
| familia = Staffordiidae
| genus = Staffordia
| species = S. staffordi
| binomial = Staffordia staffordi
| binomial_authority = Godwin-Austen, 1907[1]
| synonyms =
}}

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

The specific name staffordi as well as generic name Staffordia is in honor of Brigadier-General Stafford,{{Who|date=September 2010}} who was in command of the punitive force which entered the Dafla Hills for the first time in the winter of 1874-1875.[1]

Distribution

The type locality of this species is Toruputu Peak, Dafla Hills, {{convert|7000|ft|m}}, in India.[1]

Description

The shell is moderately solid, with a thick epidermis, very globosely conoid, rounded below.[1] The umbilicus almost hidden.[1] The sculpture is small.[1] Elongate papillae arearranged longitudinally, and differing from all the other species collected in the Dafla Hills.[1] The color is olivaceous ochre.[1] The spire is low.[1] The suture is shallow.[1] The shell has 5 whorls with sides convex above, rather flattened on the periphery of the last whorl.[1] The aperture is lunate, narrow, subvertical, milky white within, rounded below.[1] The peristome is thin, slightly sinuate below, and nearly vertical near the columella.[1]

The width of the shell is 13.2-15.2 mm.[1] The height of the shell is 7.8 mm.[1] The type specimen is not adult.[1]

References

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

1. ^10 11 12 13 14 15 16 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: [https://archive.org/stream/landfreshwatermo02godw#page/184/mode/2up page 185]-186, [https://archive.org/stream/landfreshwatermo02god#page/n227/mode/2up plate CXIII], figure 4.

External links

{{Taxonbar|from=Q7596685}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Staffordia Staffordi}}

2 : Staffordiidae|Gastropods described in 1907

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