Biology:Prestonella nuptialis

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Short description: Species of gastropod


Prestonella nuptialis
Prestonella nuptialis shell.png
Drawing of abapertural view of a shell of Prestonella nuptialis from its type description.
Scientific classification
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Prestonellinae
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P. nuptialis
Binomial name
Prestonella nuptialis
(Melvill & Ponsonby, 1894)[1]
Synonyms[1]

Buliminus nuptialis Melvill & Ponsonby, 1894

Prestonella nuptialis is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Bothriembryontidae.

It was previously classified within Prestonellidae. cf.[2][3]

Distribution

This species is endemic to Eastern Cape,[4] South Africa.[5][6]

The type locality is Craigie Burn, Somerset East, South Africa.[1]

Description

Prestonella nuptialis shell.

Prestonella nuptialis was described by two British malacologists James Cosmo Melvill (1845-1929) and John Henry Ponsonby-Fane (1848-1916) in 1894.[1] The type description reads in Latin and the English language as follows:[1]

The width of the shell of the type species is 8.5 mm.[1] The height of the shell is 15 mm.[1]

References

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

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Melvill J. C. & Ponsonby J. H. (1894). "Descriptions of fifteen new species of South-African terrestrial Mollusca". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6)16: 90-95. page 92. Plate 1, figure 5.
  2. Herbert D. G. & Mitchell A. (2008). "Phylogenetic relationships of the enigmatic land snail genus Prestonella: the missing African element in the Gondwanan superfamily Orthalicoidea (Mollusca: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 96(1): 203-221. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01109.x.
  3. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel; Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997. 
  4. Govender V. (2007). "Patterns of Distribution, Diversity and Endemism of Terrestrial Molluscs in South Africa". Thesis. School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal. 219 pp. PDF.
  5. Breure B. (23 February 2008) "The extended family". Bram's Snail Site, accessed 7 April 2011.
  6. Herbert D. G. (2007). "Revision of the genus Prestonella (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Orthalicoidea: Bulimulidae s. l.), a distinctive component of the African land snail fauna". African Invertebrates 48(2): 1-19. abstract .

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q7242042 entry