Staffordia daflaensis

Staffordia daflaensis
	drawing of apertural view of the shell of Staffordia daflaensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Staffordiidae
Genus:	Staffordia
Species:	S. daflaensis
Binomial name
	Staffordia daflaensis; (Godwin-Austen, 1???)

Staffordia daflaensis is a species of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Staffordiidae.

The specific name daflaensis is apparently according to its area of distribution, Dafla Hills in India.

Distribution[]

The type locality of this species is " Peak", 7,000 feet (2,100 m), Dafla Hills in India.^[1]

Godwin-Austen (1907)^[1] have found this species very abundant in Dafla Hills.

Description[]

The shell is depressedly tumidly conoid, umbilicated, solid, rather flat on base.^[1] The sculpture is very regular, longitudinal, sharply defined, broad-ridged ribbing.^[1] Color is rich olivaceous with ochre tint.^[1] It vary in colour and size, often being of a pale ochraceous-grey tint.^[1] The spire is low, sides convex.^[1] The suture is shallow, adpressed.^[1] The shell has 6 whorls, that are rapidly increasing.^[1] The last whorl is rounded. The aperture is broadly ovate, oblique, milky white within.^[1] The peristome is acute, sinuous above and slightly so below, much reflected at umbilical margin.^[1] The columellar margin is very oblique and descending.^[1]

The width of the shell is 16.2-23.5 mm.^[1] The height of the shell is 8.0-9.4 mm.^[1]

References[]

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

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o Godwin-Austen H. H. (1907). Land and freshwater mollusca of India, including South Arabia, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Burma, Pegu, Tenasserim, Malaya Peninsula, Ceylon and other islands of the Indian Ocean; Supplementary to Masers Theobald and Hanley's Conchologica Indica. Taylor and Francis, London. 2: page 185, plate CXIII, figure 1.

External links[]

[Godwin-Austen_1907-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o Godwin-Austen H. H. (1907). Land and freshwater mollusca of India, including South Arabia, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Burma, Pegu, Tenasserim, Malaya Peninsula, Ceylon and other islands of the Indian Ocean; Supplementary to Masers Theobald and Hanley's Conchologica Indica. Taylor and Francis, London. 2: page 185, plate CXIII, figure 1.

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