Biology:Torresiropa spaldingi
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Scientific classification 
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| Species: | Template:Taxonomy/TorresiropaT. spaldingi
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| Template:Taxonomy/TorresiropaTorresiropa spaldingi (Brazier, 1876)
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Torresiropa spaldingi is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Rhytididae. [3]
Description
The diameter of the shell is 5.5 mm.
(Original description) The shell is rather broadly and perspectively umbilicated, depressly orbicular, thin, and translucent, lacking shine and appearing rather white. Its surface exhibits irregularly oblique, roughly striated lines with smooth interstices. The spire is moderately flattened, culminating in an obtuse apex, and the suture appears deep. The shell comprises three and a half scarcely convex whorls. The body whorl is rather large and inflated, displaying an angle above and a rounded periphery, with a roundly convex base. The umbilicus measures half the width of the shell and presents somewhat deep and rounded margins. The aperture lies nearly vertical and sub-circular. The peristome is thin and acute, with approximating margins, the right margin being straight and the columellar margin slightly reflected. [4]
Distribution
This species is endemic to Australia and occurs on Cape York Peninsula and Torres Strait Islands.
References
- ↑ Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). Ougapia spaldingi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
- ↑ "Torresiropa spaldingi (Brazier, 1876)". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. 2025. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1150114.
- ↑ ATorresiropa spaldingi (Brazier, 1876). 29 April 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ↑ Brazier, J. (1876). "Descriptions of thirty-five new species of land shells from New Guinea, Australia, and islands in Torres Straits, collected during the Chevert expedition". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1: 103. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3340091. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:
- Solem, A. 1959. On the family position of some Palau, New Guinea, and Queensland land snails. Archiv für Molluskenkunde 88: 151-158
External links
- Brazier, J. (1880). "List of land shells found on Thursday Island, with descriptions of the new species.". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 4: 393. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6406572. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
- Iredale, T. (1933). "Systematic notes on Australian land shells". Records of the Australian Museum 19 (1): 54. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.19.1933.690. https://doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.19.1933.690.
- Slapcinsky, J.; Murphy, A. E. (2023). "Overlooked predatory snails from Papua New Guinea: nine new Torresiropa Solem, 1959 (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Rhytididae)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 152 (2): 137. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/152/135-152. Bibcode: 2023ArMol.152..135S. https://doi.org/10.1127/arch.moll/152/135-152.
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