Genus Tornatellides Pilsbry, 1910

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• Tornatellides Pilsbry, 1910.

  Type species:

   Tornatellides simplex Pease, 1864 by original designation.

  Secondary source:

   Stanisic, J., Shea, M., Potter, D. & Griffiths, O. 2010. Australian Land Snails. A field guide to eastern Australian species. Mauritius : Bioculture Press Vol. 1 595 pp. [92].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Pilsbry, H.A. 1910. Notes on the classification of the Tornatellinidae. Nautilus 23: 122-124 [Mar. 1910] [123]

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• Stanisic, J., Shea, M., Potter, D. & Griffiths, O. 2010. Australian Land Snails. A field guide to eastern Australian species. Mauritius : Bioculture Press Vol. 1 595 pp. [92]

Introduction

Differs from Elasmias and Tornatellinops by having more-tightly coiled whorls and a broad, relatively straight columella.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Genus is distributed on the high islands on periphery of the Pacific Basin.

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Shell minute to very small, broadly conical and tightly coiled, smooth; columella relatively straight, broad and slightly sinuous in adults with well developed twist and lamella in juveniles; parietal lamella present; umbilicus narrowly open. Colour glossy transparent brown.

Diagnosis References

Cooke, C.M. & Kondo, Y. 1960. Revision of Tornatellinidae and Achatinellidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 221: 1-303 [243]

Stanisic, J., Shea, M., Potter, D. & Griffiths, O. 2010. Australian Land Snails. A field guide to eastern Australian species. Mauritius : Bioculture Press Vol. 1 595 pp. [92]

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