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
Limicena nyasana
(Smith, 1899)
Fig. 18
Buliminus
(
Conulinus
)
nyasanus
: Smith 1899: 586
, pl. 33, figs 41, 42 (Nyika Plateau, Mount
Chiradzulu and Zomba
Plateau; 21×
15 mm
).
A widespread but not very common species, with a general distribution from southern
Tanzania
to southern
Zambia
,
Malawi
(
type
localities) and
Mozambique
. Found at one station on
Cabo Delgado
. Differs from the three preceding species of
Cerastidae
by the wider bulimoid shell with a cylindrical umbilicus, and by the characteristic protoconch sculpture of seven strong spiral ridges well illustrated by
Mordan (1998: 62
, fig. 3)
.