Staffordia staffordi

Staffordia staffordi
	A drawing of an apertural view of a shell of Staffordia staffordi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Staffordiidae
Genus:	Staffordia
Species:	S. staffordi
Binomial name
	Staffordia staffordi; Godwin-Austen, 1907

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

The specific name staffordi as well as generic name Staffordia is in honor of Brigadier-General Stafford,^[who?] who was in command of the punitive force which entered the Dafla Hills for the first time in the winter of 1874-1875.^[1]

Distribution[]

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

Description[]

The shell is moderately solid, with a thick epidermis, very globosely conoid, rounded below.^[1] The umbilicus almost hidden.^[1] The sculpture is small.^[1] Elongate papillae arearranged longitudinally, and differing from all the other species collected in the Dafla Hills.^[1] The color is olivaceous ochre.^[1] The spire is low.^[1] The suture is shallow.^[1] The shell has 5 whorls with sides convex above, rather flattened on the periphery of the last whorl.^[1] The aperture is lunate, narrow, subvertical, milky white within, rounded below.^[1] The peristome is thin, slightly sinuate below, and nearly vertical near the columella.^[1]

The width of the shell is 13.2-15.2 mm.^[1] The height of the shell is 7.8 mm.^[1] The type specimen is not adult.^[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 ^p ^q 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 185-186, plate CXIII, figure 4.

External links[]

[Godwin-Austen_1907-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q 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 185-186, plate CXIII, figure 4.

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