Holospira elizabethae is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Urocoptidae.
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| Drawing of a live individual of Holospira elizabethae from the 1889 original description by Henry Augustus Pilsbry. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Urocoptidae |
| Genus: | Holospira |
| Species: | H. elizabethae
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| Holospira elizabethae | |
Paratypes of this species are in the collection of the Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam.[2]
Original description
editHolospira elizabethae was originally discovered and described by Henry Augustus Pilsbry in 1889.[1] The type locality is Amula village, which is between the towns of Tixtla and Chilapa de Álvarez, in the State of Guerrero, Mexico.
Shell description
editComparison of apertural view of adult and juvenile shells of Holospira elizabethae:
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adult shell -
juvenile shell
Comparison of basal (umbilical) views of adult and juvenile shells of Holospira elizabethae:
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adult shell -
juvenile shell
Distribution
editThis species occurs in Mexico.
References
edit- ^ a b Pilsbry H. A. (14 May 1889). "New and little known American mollusks, no. I." Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 41: 81-89, description is at 81-82, plate 3.
- ^ NMR Collection database Archived 2011-06-08 at the Wayback Machine. accessed 19 June 2009
External links
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- Photo of the shell of Holospira elizabethae
- in Manual of Conchology 15
- page 99-100
- plate 15, figure 6-15
- plate 26, figure 27 (figure 27 does not seem like Holospira elizabethae although this figure is mentioned as this twice in the book)