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
7913493
Tayloria
(
Colpanostoma
)
leroyi
(
Bourguignat, 1889
)
Fig. 31
Colpanostoma leroyi
:
Bourguignat 1889: 43
, 48, pl. 1, figs 1–3 (Nguru Mountains, eastern
Tanzania
; 20×
25 mm
).
A common species found at 12 stations inland, previously known only from eastern
Tanzania
. The sculpture below the periphery is much less pronounced. Some of the shells are practically smooth basally. The shell illustrated here has a 0.69
h/w
ratio. However, some other shells collected in the region are proportionally higher. An unfigured shell from station 17, for example, has similar proportions (17.0×
21.5 mm
,
h/
w
0.79) to the
type
(
h/
w
0.80). Another two similar Tanzanian species:
T. usambarica
Craven, 1880
and
T. helicoides
(
Boettger, 1913
)
do not have a sinuous lip.