Tudorella sulcata

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
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 (Draparnaud, 1805)[1]
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

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

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

• 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.

External links

• Animal Base info