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
Tropidophora nyasana
(Smith, 1899)
Fig. 5
Pomatias nyasanus:
Smith 1899: 591
, pl. 35, fig. 5 (Mount
Chiradzulu
, Nyika Range,
Zomba
Plateau; 20×
21 mm
). Recorded from two stations on Cabo Delgado; has a general distribution in
Malawi
(
type
localities),
Mozambique
and
Zimbabwe
. Differs from the other three species of
Tropidophora
in the region by the presence of numerous regularly spaced spiral cords over the entire shell surface.