| Blanfordia simplex | |
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| A pair of Blanfordia simplex mating on the forest floor. | |
| 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. simplex |
| Binomial name | |
| Blanfordia simplex Pilsbry, 1902 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Blanfordia japonica var. simplex Pilsbry, 1902 | |
Blanfordia simplex is a species of land snail that has an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.
Henry Augustus Pilsbry described it as Blanfordia japonica var. simplex in 1902. He has elevated this taxon to specific level in 1903.
Distribution
This species is endemic to Japan. It occurs widely along the Sea of Japan. The type locality is Nishigo, Uzen Province, Honshu.
It is a Near Threatened species.
Description
Blanfordia simplex has a shell with 4.1-5.1 whorls. Pilsbry (1902) described the first whorl to be more or less worn. The color of the shell is yellowish-olivaceous. It has the lip hardly visible, only a mere trifle expanded.
The width of the shell is 3.7-4.2 mm. The height of the shell is 5.9-6.9 mm.
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The shell of Blanfordia simplex is shorter and broader than that of Blanfordia bensoni.
Ecology
This species lives on coastal dunes and in littoral forests.
References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference
- ^ Pilsbry H. A. (1902). "New land Mollusca from Japan and the Bonin Islands". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 54: 25-32. page 26.
- ^ Bartsch P. (1936). "Molluscan intermediate hosts of the Asiatic blood fluke, Schistosoma japonicum, and species confused with them". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 95(5): 1-60. pages 14-15.
- ^ 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.
- Pilsbry H. A. & Hirase Y. (1903). "New land shell of the Japanese Empire". The Nautilus 16: 114-117.
- (in Japanese) "ヒメオカマメタニシ" 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
- Pilsbry H. A. (1915). "The Japanese species of Blanfordia". The Nautilus 29(1): 1-4. page 2, figure 3, 3a.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Blanfordia simplex | |