- Cremnoconchus carinatus
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Cremnoconchus carinatus Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade LittorinimorphaSuperfamily: Littorinoidea Family: Littorinidae Subfamily: Lacuninae Genus: Cremnoconchus Species: C. carinatus Binomial name Cremnoconchus carinatus
(Layard, 1854)[1]Synonyms[2] - Anculotus carinatus Layard, 1854
- Cremnoconchus fairbanki Hanley & Theobald, 1876
Cremnoconchus carinatus is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Littorinidae, the winkles or periwinkles.[2]
Distribution
This species is endemic to the Western Ghats range,[1][3] in India.[4]
The type locality for this species is streams in Mahabaleshwar Hills, the Western Ghats range, India.[1] It lives about 4,500 feet (1,400 m) above the sea level.[5]
In 1869== Description == Cremnoconchus carinatus was originally discovered and described from a juvenile shell[5] (under the name Anculotus carinatus) by the English naturalist Edgar Leopold Layard in 1854.[1] Layard's original text (the type description) reads as follows:[1]
“ Anculotus carinatus, Layard.
Shell somewhat globose; axis 5 lines, diam. 4 lines. Spire exserted, short. Whorls inflated, rather square, sharply keeled round the inferior angle, minutely longitudinally striated. Colour dull olive, marked faintly with two or three broad bands of dark rufous-brown, which are very apparent in the aperture; columellar lip white, stained with a light dash of the same rufous-brown on the exterior margin.
Hab. Streams in the Mahakeshwar Hills, Bombay Presidency. Mus. Cuming.
” In 1869, another English naturalist, William Thomas Blanford, moved this species to the newly created genus Cremnoconchus.[5]
In the adult shell the last whorl is angulate below the suture and at the periphery.[5] The shell is imperforate, ovately conical, with the apex eroded.[5] The width of the shell is 5.5 mm.[5] The height of the shell is 8 mm.[5]
References
This article incorporates public domain text from references[1][5]
- ^ a b c d e f Layard E. L. (1854). "Observations on the Genus Paludomus of Swainson, with Descriptions of several New Species, and the Description of a New Species of Anculotus". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (for 1854)22: 87-94. page 94.
- ^ a b WoRMS (2010). Cremnoconchus carinatus (Layard, 1854). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=549387 on 2011-09-05
- ^ Strong E. E., Gargominy O., Ponder W. F. & Bouchet P. (2008). "Global Diversity of Gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in Freshwater". Hydrobiologia 595: 149-166. hdl.handle.net doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9012-6
- ^ (file created 29 July 2010) "FRESH WATER MOLLUSCAN SPECIES IN INDIA". accessed 5 September 2011. 11 pp. PDF.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Blanford W. T. (1869). "Notes on some Indian and Mascarene Land-Shells". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4)3: 340-344. page 343.
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