Tropidophora fimbriata

Tropidophora fimbriata is a species of land snail with a gill and an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiidae.

Tropidophora fimbriata
A live but retracted individual of Tropidophora fimbriata haemostoma, showing the operculum in the aperture
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Pomatiidae
Genus:	Tropidophora
Species:	T. fimbriata
Binomial name
Tropidophora fimbriata (Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms
Cyclostoma fimbriata Lamarck, 1822

1846 drawing of the shell of Tropidophora fimbriata with its calcareous operculum by Ludwig Karl Georg Pfeiffer.

This species is found in the Mascarenes. Subspecies include T. f. rodriguesensis and T. f. haemostoma.

Original description

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.

References

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Further reading

• (in German) Pfeiffer L. K. G. 1846. Die gedeckelten Lungenschnecken : (Helicinaceae et Cyclostomaceae): in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. II. volume. Bauer und Raspe, Nürnberg. page 179.

External links

• (in French) Image and description