Terrestrial molluscs of Cabo Delgado and adjacent inland areas of north-eastern Mozambique
Author
Muratov, Igor V.
text
African Invertebrates
2010
2010-12-31
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.5733/afin.051.0203
journal article
10.5733/afin.051.0203
2305-2562
10268367
Trochozonites
(
Crenatinanina
)
crenulata
(
Germain, 1905
)
Figs 51
,
53–55
Trochonanina crenulata
:
Germain 1905: 484
(Environs de
Zanzibar
; 11.0×
15.5 mm
).
Trochonanina
(
Crenatinanina
)
crenulata
: Germain 1920: 75
, pl. 4, figs 3–5 (
Zanzibar
; 10.0×
15.5 mm
,
erroneously said to be “grandeur naturelle” in figures captions).
This
appears to be a rediscovery of the species collected by
Raffray
in 1891 and not seen since 1920.
The
type
, according to Germain in
MNHN
, could not be found there (
Rowson 2007: 451
)
.
Figs 56–61.
Pomatiidae
: (56)
Tropidophora ligata
, shell 15.5×15.3 mm, stn 7; (57)
T. zanguebarica
, shell 10.0×9.5 mm, stn 7;
Cerastidae
: (58)
Rhachistia catenata
, shell 10.0×6.3 mm, subadult, stn 1;
Achatinidae
: (59)
Achatina immaculata
, shell 102×56 mm, stn 1;
Subulinidae
:(60)
Kempioconcha boivini
, shell 16.0×8.4 mm, stn 1; (61)
K. conradti
, shell 13.7×6.2 mm, stn 8.
Embryonic whorls (destroyed in the
type
and thus not previously described) with weak close-set microscopic axial riblets cut by much finer spiral lines.
All
shells found at the three stations on
Cabo Delgado
are proportionally higher than the
type
, but some worn adult shells are up to 10.3×
15.2 mm
, approaching the size and proportions of the
type
. The shell illustrated in
Figs 53–55
is faded, smaller than the
type
but similar in shape
.