| Blanfordia japonica | |
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| Drawing of dorsal view of Blanfordia japonica | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Pomatiopsidae |
| Subfamily: | Pomatiopsinae |
| Genus: | Blanfordia |
| Species: | B. japonica |
| Binomial name | |
| Blanfordia japonica (A. Adams, 1861) | |
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Blanfordia japonica is a species of land snail which has an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.
Distribution
This species is endemic to Japan. The type locality is Sado.
It is a Near Threatened species.
Description
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Ecology
This species lives from coastal areas to inland forests.
References
- ^ Adams A. (1861). "On some new Genera and Species of Mollusca from the North of China and Japan". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3)8: 299-309. 308.
- Davis G. M. (1979). "The origin and evolution of the gastropod family Pomatiopsidae, with emphasis on the Mekong river Triculinae". Academy of natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Monograph 20: 1-120. at Google books. page 117.
- ^ Kameda Y. & Kato M. (2011). "Terrestrial invasion of pomatiopsid gastropods in the heavy-snow region of the Japanese Archipelago". BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 118. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-118.
- (in Japanese) "イツマデガイ" Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine. 日本のレッドデータ検索システム , accessed 17 July 2011.
External links
- (in Japanese) 江川 和文 Ekawa K. (1985). "福井県産イツマデガイの諸知見 ". ちりぼたん Newsletter of the Malacological Society of Japan 15(4): 93-97. CiNii.
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