Tudorella sulcata

Tudorella sulcata is a species of land snail which has an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiidae.

Tudorella sulcata
Five views of a shell of Tudorella sulcata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Pomatiidae
Genus: Tudorella
Species:
T. sulcata
Binomial name
Tudorella sulcata
(Draparnaud, 1805)[1]

Distribution

This species stricto sensu (T. s. sulcata) occurs in Algeria, France, Portugal and lato sensu (Tudorella sp. pl.) also in Morocco, Spain, Sardinia, Malta[2] Tunisia and Sicily.

References
  1. (in French) Draparnaud J.-P.-R. (1805). Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. Ouvrage posthume. Avec XIII planches. pp. [1-9], j-viij [= 1-8], 1-134, [Pl. 1-13]. Paris, Montpellier. (Plassan, Renaud).
  2. Kolouch L. R. (2003). "Suchozemští, sladkovodní a brakičtí měkkýši ostrovů Malty. [Terrestrial, freshwater, and brackish mollusca of Malta islands]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca 2: 43-50. PDF.

Further reading
  • Jesse R., Véla E. & Pfenninger M. (2011). "Phylogeography of a Land Snail Suggests Trans-Mediterranean Neolithic Transport". PLoS ONE 6(6): e20734. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020734.
  • (in French) Pavon D. (2005). "Tudorella sulcata sulcata (Draparnaud 1805) (Gastropoda: Pomatiidae), une espèce patrimoniale de la malacofaune francaise. Biocosme mesogéen 21: 155-170 (dated 2004, published in 2005).
  • (in French) Véla E., Magnin F., Pavon D. & Pfenninger M. (2008). "Phylogénie moléculaire et données paléobiogéographiques sur le gastéropode terrestre Tudorella sulcata (Draparnaud, 1805) en France et en Algérie orientale". Geodiversitas 30(1): 233-246.


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