Biology:Holospira elizabethae
| Holospira elizabethae | |
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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 |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Urocoptidae |
| Genus: | Holospira |
| Species: | H. elizabethae
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| Binomial name | |
| Holospira elizabethae Pilsbry, 1889[1]
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Holospira elizabethae is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Urocoptidae.
Paratypes of this species are in the collection of the Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam.[2]
Original description
Holospira 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
Comparison of apertural view of adult and juvenile shells of Holospira elizabethae:
adult shell
juvenile shell
Comparison of basal (umbilical) views of adult and juvenile shells of Holospira elizabethae:
adult shell
juvenile shell
Distribution
This species occurs in Mexico.
References
External links
- 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)
Wikidata ☰ Q5884336 entry
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