Holospira elizabethae
| Holospira elizabethae | |
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| Drawing of a live individual of Holospira elizabethae from the 1889 original description by Henry Augustus Pilsbry. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Urocoptidae |
| Genus: | Holospira |
| Species: | H. elizabethae
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| Holospira elizabethae | |
Holospira elizabethae is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Urocoptidae.
Paratypes of this species are in the collection of the Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam.[2]
Original description
[edit]Holospira elizabethae was originally discovered and described by Henry Augustus Pilsbry in 1889.[1] The type locality is Amula village, which is between the towns of Tixtla and Chilapa de Álvarez, in the State of Guerrero, Mexico.
Shell description
[edit]Comparison of apertural view of adult and juvenile shells of Holospira elizabethae:
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adult shell -
juvenile shell
Comparison of basal (umbilical) views of adult and juvenile shells of Holospira elizabethae:
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adult shell -
juvenile shell
Distribution
[edit]This species occurs in Mexico.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Pilsbry H. A. (14 May 1889). "New and little known American mollusks, no. I." Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 41: 81-89, description is at 81-82, plate 3.
- ^ NMR Collection database Archived 2011-06-08 at the Wayback Machine. accessed 19 June 2009
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Holospira elizabethae.
- Photo of the shell of Holospira elizabethae
- in Manual of Conchology 15
- page 99-100
- plate 15, figure 6-15
- plate 26, figure 27 (figure 27 does not seem like Holospira elizabethae although this figure is mentioned as this twice in the book)