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3.
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aurifera (Preston, 1912)
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Fig. 2
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<taxonomicName class="Gastropoda" family="Assimineidae" genus="Assimania" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Assimania aurifera" order="Littorinimorpha" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="aurifera">Assimania aurifera</taxonomicName>
<bibRefCitation author="Preston, HB" journalOrPublisher="Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" pagination="183 - 193" title="Diagnoses of new species of terrestrial and fluviatile shells from British and German East Africa, with the description of a new genus (Eussoia) from the Eusso Nyiro River, B. E. Africa" volume="1912" year="1912">Preston 1912</bibRefCitation>
: 191-192; pl. XXXI, fig. 9
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<paragraph pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Notes.</paragraph>
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Living indiduals were abundant in leaf litter across Pemba, including sites many kilometres from the sea or fresh water (Table 2). As the only African terrestrial assimineid,
<bibRefCitation author="Verdcourt, B" editor="Burgess, ND" journalOrPublisher="IUCN, Gland, Switzerland" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" title="Molluscs" volumeTitle="Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa" year="2000">Verdcourt (2000</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation author="Verdcourt, B" journalOrPublisher="B Verdcourt, Maidenhead, UK" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" title="A Revised List of the Non-marine Mollusca of East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, excluding Lake Malawi)" year="2006">2006</bibRefCitation>
) considered
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worthy of a new genus in Omphalotropinae, a group diverse on the Mascarenes and elsewhere (
<bibRefCitation author="Griffiths, OL" journalOrPublisher="Bioculture Press, Mauritius" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" title="A field guide to the non-marine molluscs of the Mascarene Islands (Mauritius, Rodrigues and Reunion) and the Northern Dependencies of Mauritius" year="2006">Griffiths and Florens 2006</bibRefCitation>
).
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is otherwise recorded only from coastal Kenya and Unguja (
<bibRefCitation author="Verdcourt, B" journalOrPublisher="B Verdcourt, Maidenhead, UK" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" title="A Revised List of the Non-marine Mollusca of East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, excluding Lake Malawi)" year="2006">Verdcourt 2006</bibRefCitation>
). However, its shells are very similar to
<taxonomicName class="Gastropoda" family="Assimineidae" genus="Assiminia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Assiminia parvula" order="Littorinimorpha" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="parvula">Assiminia parvula</taxonomicName>
Morelet, 1877, described from Anjouan, Comoros (
<bibRefCitation author="Morelet, A" journalOrPublisher="Journal de Conchyliologie" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" pagination="325 - 347" title="Excursion conchyliologique dans l'Ile d'Anjouan (Johanna)" volume="25" year="1877">Morelet 1877</bibRefCitation>
). Also terrestrial,
<taxonomicName class="Gastropoda" family="Assimineidae" genus="Assimania" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Assimania parvula" order="Littorinimorpha" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="parvula">Assimania parvula</taxonomicName>
is widespread in the Indo-Pacific and was recorded from Aldabra by
<bibRefCitation author="Gerlach, J" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Conchology" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" pagination="667 - 679" title="The land snails of the Aldabra Islands, Western Indian Ocean." volume="37" year="2002">Gerlach and Griffiths (2002)</bibRefCitation>
.
<bibRefCitation author="Solem, A" journalOrPublisher="Fieldiana (Zoology)" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" pagination="1 - 359" title="Systematics and zoogeography of the land and fresh-water Mollusca of the New Hebrides." volume="43" year="1959">Solem (1959)</bibRefCitation>
discussed how terrestrial assimineids could be dispersed naturally by sea although we note that
<taxonomicName class="Gastropoda" family="Assimineidae" genus="Assimania" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Assimania aurifera" order="Littorinimorpha" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="aurifera">Assimania aurifera</taxonomicName>
is a common fossil in Pleistocene deposits in southern Tanzania (
<bibRefCitation author="Reuter, M" journalOrPublisher="Quaternary Research" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" pagination="136 - 142" title="Sedimentary evolution of a late Pleistocene wetland indicating extreme coastal uplift in southern Tanzania." volume="73" year="2010">Reuter et al. 2010</bibRefCitation>
). Further data are needed to resolve this. Note: Both
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and
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were described under misspellings of
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Fleming, 1928:
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(
<bibRefCitation author="Morelet, A" journalOrPublisher="Journal de Conchyliologie" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" pagination="325 - 347" title="Excursion conchyliologique dans l'Ile d'Anjouan (Johanna)" volume="25" year="1877">Morelet 1877</bibRefCitation>
) and
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(
<bibRefCitation author="Preston, HB" journalOrPublisher="Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" pagination="183 - 193" title="Diagnoses of new species of terrestrial and fluviatile shells from British and German East Africa, with the description of a new genus (Eussoia) from the Eusso Nyiro River, B. E. Africa" volume="1912" year="1912">Preston 1912</bibRefCitation>
). The genus
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, to which
<taxonomicName class="Gastropoda" family="Assimineidae" genus="Assimania" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Assimania aurifera" order="Littorinimorpha" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="aurifera">Assimania aurifera</taxonomicName>
has been referred, now includes only aquatic taxa (
<bibRefCitation author="Brown, DS" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Molluscan Studies" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" pagination="208 - 223" title="New and little known gastropod species of fresh and brackish waters in Africa, Madagascar and Mauritius." volume="46" year="1980">Brown 1980</bibRefCitation>
).
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Figures 2-12. Living animals of selected species from Pemba (not to scale). 2
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aurifera
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3
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4
<taxonomicName class="Gastropoda" family="Achatinidae" genus="Subulona" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Subulona ordinaria" order="Stylommatophora" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="ordinaria">Subulona ordinaria</taxonomicName>
5
<taxonomicName class="Gastropoda" family="Streptaxidae" genus="Gonaxis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Gonaxis denticulatus" order="Stylommatophora" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="denticulatus">Gonaxis denticulatus</taxonomicName>
6
<taxonomicName class="Gastropoda" family="Streptaxidae" genus="Gulella" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Gulella planidens" order="Stylommatophora" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="planidens">Gulella planidens</taxonomicName>
7
<taxonomicName class="Gastropoda" family="Streptaxidae" genus="Tayloria" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Tayloria shimbiensis" order="Stylommatophora" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="shimbiensis">Tayloria shimbiensis</taxonomicName>
8
<taxonomicName class="Gastropoda" family="Streptaxidae" genus="Edentulina" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Edentulina obesa" order="Stylommatophora" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="obesa">Edentulina obesa</taxonomicName>
9
<taxonomicName class="Gastropoda" family="Urocyclidae" genus="Trochonanina" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Trochonanina mozambicensis" order="Stylommatophora" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="mozambicensis">Trochonanina mozambicensis</taxonomicName>
10
<taxonomicName class="Gastropoda" family="Urocyclidae" genus="Pembatoxon" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pembatoxon insulare" order="Stylommatophora" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="insulare">Pembatoxon insulare</taxonomicName>
11
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<normalizedToken originalValue="“Dendrolimax”">&quot;Dendrolimax&quot;</normalizedToken>
vangoethemi
</taxonomicName>
(Paratype 2) 12
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(Paratype 1).
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