Blanfordia japonica

Blanfordia japonica is a species of land snail which has an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.[3]

Blanfordia japonica
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)[1]
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Tomichia japonica A. Adams, 1861
  • Blanfordia bensoni minor Pilsbry, 1901
  • Blanfordia pilbryana Annandale, 1924

Distribution

This species is endemic to Japan.[3] The type locality is Sado.[1]

It is a Near Threatened species.[4]

Description
Drawing of apertural view of a shell. The scale is 1 mm.
Drawing of lateral view of a shell. The scale is 1 mm.
Blanfordia japonica on the forest floor.

Ecology

This species lives from coastal areas to inland forests.[3]

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References
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. (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 [Japanese Red List Data Book], accessed 17 July 2011.
  • (in Japanese) 江川 和文 Ekawa K. (1985). "福井県産イツマデガイの諸知見 [A Note on Blanfordia japonica from Fukui Prefecture]". ちりぼたん Newsletter of the Malacological Society of Japan 15(4): 93-97. CiNii.


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