Tropidophora

Tropidophora
	Shell of the species
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Littorinoidea
Family:	Pomatiidae
Subfamily:	Pomatiinae
Genus:	Tropidophora; Troschel, 1847
Type species
	Cyclostoma cuvieriana Petit de la Saussaye, 1841;
Diversity
	95 specific names, unknown number of true biological species
Synonyms
	Cyclostoma (Tropidophora) Troschel, 1847; Ligatella E. von Martens, 1880; Tropidophora (Eutropidophora) Möllendorff, 1898· accepted, alternate representation; Tropidophora (Ligatella) E. von Martens, 1880; Tropidophora (Tropidophora) Troschel, 1847· accepted, alternate representation; Tropidophora (Virgotropidophora) Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965· accepted, alternate representation;

Tropidophora is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Pomatiidae.^[2] ^[3]

Distribution[]

These large, split-sole snails are found in Tanzania,^[2] Madagascar, the Mascarenes, the Comoros and South Africa.

95-99% of Tropidophora species are endemic to Madagascar.^[4]

Species[]

The present classification of this genus into three subgenera, 95 species and 142 varieties is complex and confused. This classification is best ignored temporarily, as it is based on subtle morphological varieties among small samples. It is also assumed that many smaller species remain to be discovered.^[1]

Species within the genus Tropidophora include:

(Morelet, 1890)
(Dautzenberg, 1894)
(L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
Fischer-Piette, Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1969
(E. von Martens, 1878)
Fischer-Piette & Testud, 1973
Fischer-Piette, Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1969
Tropidophora articulata (Gray, 1834)
(Potiez & Michaud, 1838)
(G. B. Sowerby III, 1874)
Fischer-Piette, 1949
(Petit de la Saussaye, 1853) ^[5]
Fischer-Piette, 1949
Fischer-Piette, 1949
(E. A. Smith, 1882)
†
(G. B. Sowerby I, 1843)
Fischer-Piette, Blanc, C.P., Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1993
(G. B. Sowerby I, 1843)
†
Tropidophora carinata (Born, 1780) - possibly extinct
Fulton, 1902
(L. Pfeiffer, 1851)
Fischer-Piette, Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1969
Fischer-Piette, 1949
(Morelet, 1877)
(G. B. Sowerby I, 1843)
Melvill & Ponsonby, 1903
Preston, 1910
(Pfeiffer, 1852)
(S. Petit de la Saussaye, 1852)
Fulton, 1902
(Dunker, 1848)
Tropidophora cuveriana Petit de la Saussaye, 1841
Tropidophora deburghiae Reeve, 1861
(Morelet, 1876)
(Bourguignat, 1887)
Fischer-Piette, 1949
Fischer-Piette, Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1969
(Petit de la Saussaye, 1844)
† Tropidophora desmazuresi Crosse, 1873
Fischer-Piette, 1949
Fischer-Piette, Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1969
(Reeve, 1857)
(Crosse & P. Fischer, 1887)
Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965
Fischer-Piette, Blanc, C.P., Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1993
Fischer-Piette, 1949
(G. B. Sowerby III, 1874)
Tropidophora fimbriata (Lamarck, 1822)
Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965
(G. B. Sowerby I, 1849)
(Melvill & Ponsonby, 1895)
O. Boettger, 1892
(G. B. Sowerby I, 1843)
(L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
Fischer-Piette, Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1969
Gerlach, 2006
(G. B. Sowerby I, 1843)
(L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
(L. Pfeiffer, 1862)
(E. von Martens, 1876)
Fischer-Piette, 1949
(Morelet, 1886)
Griffiths & Herbert, 2013
(G. B. Sowerby I, 1843)
(L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
Fischer-Piette, Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1969
Fischer-Piette, Blanc, F. & Vukadinovic, 1974
(E. A. Smith, 1882)
(Petit de la Saussaye, 1850)
(Bourguignat, 1887)
(Morelet, 1877)
(O. F. Müller, 1774)
(Grateloup, 1840)
Emberton, 2009
(L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
(L. Pfeiffer, 1852)
Fischer-Piette, Blanc, C.P., Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1993
(Fischer-Piette, C. P. Blanc, F. Blanc & Salvat, 1993)
Fischer-Piette, Blanc, C.P., Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1993
Fischer-Piette, Blanc, C.P., Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1993
(H. Adams, 1867)
Tropidophora michaudi Grateloup, 1840 - possibly extinct
(L. Pfeiffer, 1857)
Fischer-Piette, 1949
(Verdcourt, 1963) †
(Morelet, 1881)
Fischer-Piette, 1949
(Grateloup, 1840)
(E.A. Smith, 1899)
(Mörch, 1852)
(Melvill & Ponsonby, 1896)
Fischer-Piette, Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1969
Fulton, 1903
Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965
Fischer-Piette, 1949
(L. Pfeiffer, 1852)
Fulton, 1903
(Morelet, 1886)
(L. Pfeiffer, 1859)
Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965
Fischer-Piette, Blanc, C.P., Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1993
Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965
(G. B. Sowerby I, 1843)
(J. E. Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)
(G. B. Sowerby I, in Reeve, 1842)
Fischer-Piette, 1949
(A. Adams & L. Reeve, 1850)
Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965
(L. Pfeiffer, 1857)
Fischer-Piette, Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1969
(H. Adams, 1867)
Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965
(L. Pfeiffer, 1847)
† Tropidophora semilineata P.M.A. Morelet, 1881
(Morelet, 1881)
Griffiths & Herbert, 2013 †
(Fulton, 1901)
Fischer-Piette & Testud, 1973
(L. Pfeiffer, 1846)
Fischer-Piette, Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1969
(G. B. Sowerby I, 1843)
Fischer-Piette, Blanc, C.P., Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1993
Fischer-Piette, 1949
Fischer-Piette, 1949
(Melvill & Ponsonby, 1891)
(O. F. Müller, 1774)
Fischer-Piette, 1949
(Lamarck, 1822)
Fischer-Piette, Blanc, C.P., Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1993
(Morelet, 1860)
(G. B. Sowerby III, 1873)
Fischer-Piette, 1949
Griffiths, 2000
(G. B. Sowerby I, 1843)
(L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
(L. Pfeiffer, 1852)
(G. B. Sowerby I, in Reeve, 1842)
Fischer-Piette, Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1969
Fischer-Piette, 1949
(G. B. Sowerby I, 1850)
(Petit de la Saussaye, 1850)^[2]
(Petit de la Saussaye, 1850)

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Emberton K. C. (January 2008). "Cryptic, genetically extremely divergent, polytypic, convergent, and polymorphic taxa in Madagascan Tropidophora (Gastropoda: Pomatiasidae)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 55 (3): 183–208. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1995.tb01059.x. Archived from the original on 2013-01-05.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Rowson B., Warren B. H. & Ngereza C. F. (2010). "Terrestrial molluscs of Pemba Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania, and its status as an "oceanic" island". ZooKeys 70: 1-39. doi:10.3897/zookeys.70.762.
^ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Tropidophora Troschel, 1847. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995130 on 2020-09-30
^ A GUIDE TO THE LAND SNAILS OF RANOMAFANA NATIONAL PARK, MADAGASCAR, last change 2 November 2007, accessed 29 June 2009 Archived November 21, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
^ Syntype at MNHN, Paris

Fischer-Piette, E. & Bedoucha, J. (1965). Mollusques terrestres operculés de Madagascar. Mémoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Nouvelle Série, Série A, Zoologie, 33: 50-91. Paris

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[Emberton_2008-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b Emberton K. C. (January 2008). "Cryptic, genetically extremely divergent, polytypic, convergent, and polymorphic taxa in Madagascan Tropidophora (Gastropoda: Pomatiasidae)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 55 (3): 183–208. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1995.tb01059.x. Archived from the original on 2013-01-05.

[Rowson_2010-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Rowson B., Warren B. H. & Ngereza C. F. (2010). "Terrestrial molluscs of Pemba Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania, and its status as an "oceanic" island". ZooKeys 70: 1-39. doi:10.3897/zookeys.70.762.

[WoRMS-3] MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Tropidophora Troschel, 1847. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995130 on 2020-09-30

[4] A GUIDE TO THE LAND SNAILS OF RANOMAFANA NATIONAL PARK, MADAGASCAR, last change 2 November 2007, accessed 29 June 2009 Archived November 21, 2008, at the Wayback Machine

[5] Syntype at MNHN, Paris

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