Erepta thiriouxi
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Erepta thiriouxi is an extinct land snail species that was found in Mauritius . The art epithet honors the amateur palaeontologist Louis Étienne Thirioux , whocollectedthe type specimens together with Paul Carie .
features
The case diameter of the collected specimens is 9.5 to 10.5 mm, the case height 7 to 8 mm. The case is cone-shaped, quite thick and strong. There are seven turns and an arched end turn, which is strongly angled on the periphery and almost keel-shaped. The navel is narrow. The sculpture has very oblique, uneven radial stripes on the apical surface and narrow protruding radial stripes on the basal surface. The peristome is somewhat thickened. The spindle is turned over and has a small tooth.
status
Erepta thiriouxi is only known from subfossil type material that was collected in the 19th century on Mount Pieter Both at 330 to 450 altitude on Mauritius. Live specimens were never found.
literature
- Louis Germain: Sur la classification de quelques Mollusques Pulmonés des îles Mascareignes et description d'espèces nouvelles de cet archipelago. In: Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Volume 24, 1918, p. 523.
- Owen Lee Griffiths, Francois Benjamin Vincent Florens : A Field Guide to the Non-Marine Molluscs of the Mascarene Islands: (Mauritius, Rodrigues and Reunion) and the Northern Dependencies of Mauritius. Bioculture Press, Mauritius 2006, ISBN 99949-22-05-X , pp. 123-124.