Tudorella sulcata is a species of land snail which has an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiidae.

Tudorella sulcata
Five views of a shell of Tudorella sulcata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Pomatiidae
Subfamily: Pomatiinae
Genus: Tudorella
Species:
T. sulcata
Binomial name
Tudorella sulcata
Synonyms
  • Cyclostoma (Tudorella) sulcatum (Draparnaud, 1805)
  • Cyclostoma aurantium Anton, 1838 (junior synonym)
  • Cyclostoma sulcata Draparnaud, 1805 (incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet)
  • Cyclostoma sulcatum Draparnaud, 1805 (original combination)
  • Pomatias sulcatus (Draparnaud, 1805)

Distribution

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The species (T. s. sulcata) occurs in Algeria, France, Portugal and (Tudorella sp. pl.) also occurs in Morocco, Spain, Sardinia, Malta[2] Tunisia and Sicily.

References

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  1. ^ (in French) Draparnaud J.-P.-R. (1805). Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. Ouvrage posthume. Avec XIII planches. pp. [1-9], j-viij [= 1-8], 1-134, [Pl. 1-13]. Paris, Montpellier. (Plassan, Renaud).
  2. ^ Kolouch, Luboš R. (2003-07-10). "Suchozemští, sladkovodní a brakičtí měkkýši ostrovů Malty [Terrestrial, freshwater and brackish mollusca of Malta islands]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca (in Czech). 2: 43–50. doi:10.5817/MaB2003-2-43. ISSN 1336-6939.

Further reading

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  • Jesse R., Véla E. & Pfenninger M. (2011). "Phylogeography of a Land Snail Suggests Trans-Mediterranean Neolithic Transport". PLoS ONE 6(6): e20734. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020734.
  • (in French) Pavon D. (2005). "Tudorella sulcata sulcata (Draparnaud 1805) (Gastropoda: Pomatiidae), une espèce patrimoniale de la malacofaune francaise. Biocosme mesogéen 21: 155-170 (dated 2004, published in 2005).
  • (in French) Véla E., Magnin F., Pavon D. & Pfenninger M. (2008). "Phylogénie moléculaire et données paléobiogéographiques sur le gastéropode terrestre Tudorella sulcata (Draparnaud, 1805) en France et en Algérie orientale". Geodiversitas 30(1): 233–246.
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