Biology:Trilobopsis loricata

Short description: Species of gastropod

Trilobopsis loricata
Three views of a shell of Trilobopsis loricata
Conservation status
Imperiled
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Polygyridae
Genus:	Trilobopsis
Species:	T. loricata
Binomial name
Trilobopsis loricata (Gould, 1846)
Synonyms
Helix loricata A. Gould, 1846 (original combination)

Trilobopsis loricata is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Polygyridae.

Subspecies

• Trilobopsis loricata lowei (Pilsbry, 1925)
• Trilobopsis loricata mariposa Pilsbry, 1940
• Trilobopsis loricata nortensis (Berry, 1933)
• Trilobopsis loricata perforata Pilsbry, 1940
• Trilobopsis loricata sonomaensis (Hemphill, 1911)
• Trilobopsis loricata perforata Pilsbry, 1940: synonym of Trilobopsis trachypepla (S. S. Berry, 1933)

Distribution

This species occurs in the United States of America, mainly in California.

References

• Gould, A.A. (1846). New species of Helix, from the Shells of the Exploring Expedition. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 2: 165-167. Boston.

External links

• Emberton, K. C. (1995). When shells do not tell: 145 million years of evolution in North America's polygyrid land snails, with a revision and conservation priorities. Malacologia. 37(1): 69-110. Ann Arbor

Wikidata ☰ Q3074952 entry