Solatopupa similis
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Solatopupa similis is a species of grain snails (Chondrinidae) from the suborder of land snails (Stylommatophora).
features
The slim, spindle-shaped case is 9.0 to 16 mm high and 3.0 to 4.2 mm wide. It has 8¼ to 9½ moderately arched turns, which are separated from each other by a moderately deep seam. It is matt white to bluish white in color with more or less radial brown spots. The surface is irregularly striped to finely ribbed and does not shine. The mouth rim is widened, ends thin and sharp and has a barely thickened white lip. The mouth has six teeth or folds: two clear, roughly equally strong palatal teeth, rarely an infrapalatal tooth, a clear parietal tooth, a strong columellar tooth and a weak subcolumellar tooth, which can occasionally be missing, and an angular tooth, the is connected to the edge of the mouth. The last turn is slightly obliquely flattened and indistinctly keeled at the base. The navel is missing or at least very narrow.
Similar species
The species differs from all other Solatopupa species by its characteristic mouth reinforcement .
Geographical distribution and habitat
The distribution area of Solatopupa similis extends from north-east Spain (Gerona province) along coastal areas of the western Mediterranean up to the height of Rome. In France the area extends as far as Savoy. There is a deliberately abandoned colony in the canton of Ticino (southern Switzerland). The species is also known from Sardinia. The species lives on warm, dry, sun-facing limestone rocks, on rubble, old walls and ruins. In Switzerland it rises up to 700 m above sea level. The animals feed on lichens, which cover the limestone and which they graze with their rasping tongue.
Taxonomy
The taxon was first described by Jean-Guillaume Bruguière in 1792 as Bulimus similis . Synonyms are according to Edmund Gittenberger:
- Pupa cinerea Draparnaud, 1801
- Pupa cinerea var. Major Draparnaud, 1805
- Torquilla cinerea c. varia Beck, 1837
- Pupa octoplicata Lessona. 1880
- Pupa olivetorum Locard, 1894
- Pupa plagionixa Locard, 1894
- Turbo quinquedentatus Dillwyn, 1817
- Pupa quinquedentata var. Minor Moquin-Tandon, 1856
- Pupa quinquedentata var. Turriculata Bourguignat, 1860
- Jaminia quinquelamellata Risso, 1826
- Pupa septemplicata Lessona, 1880
- Chondrina (solatopupa) similis var. Achinolfi Steenberg, 1925
- Pupa similis f. dissimilis Westerlund, 1887
- Pupa similis var. Fasciata Caziot & Fagot, 1904
- Pupa similis var. Isabellae Caziot, 1913
- Pupa similis var. Laevigata Westerlund, 1887
- Pupa similis var. Minoricensis Westerlund, 1887
- Solatopupa similis monterosatoi Aguilar-Amat, 1932
- Pupa similis var. Porcellata Westerlund, 1890
- Pupa similis var. Unifasciata Caziot, 1910
- Pupa variegella L. Pfeiffer, 1848
Solatopupa similis (Bruguière, 1792) is the type species of the genus Solatopupa Pilsbry, 1917.
supporting documents
literature
- Edmund Gittenberger: Contributions to the knowledge of the pupillacea: III. Chondrininae. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 127 (1): 3-267, 1973 ISSN 0024-1652 PDF .
- Klaus Bogon: Land snails biology, ecology, biotope protection. 404 p., Natur Verlag, Augsburg 1990 ISBN 3-89440-002-1 (p. 132)
- Rosina Fechter and Gerhard Falkner: molluscs. 287 p., Mosaik-Verlag, Munich 1990 (Steinbach's Nature Guide 10) ISBN 3-570-03414-3 (p. 144)
- Francisco W. Welter-Schultes: European non-marine molluscs, a guide for species identification = identification book for European land and freshwater mollusks. A1-A3 S., 679 S., Q1-Q78 S., Göttingen, Planet Poster Ed., 2012 ISBN 3-933922-75-5 , ISBN 978-3-933922-75-5
Individual evidence
- ^ Jean-Guillaume Bruguière: Encyclopédie méthodique. Histoire naturelle des vers. Tome premier. (ABE-CON). SI-XVIII, pp. 1-757, Paris, Panckoucke 1792 Online at www.biodiversitylibrary.org (p. 355).
- ↑ Fauna Europaea: Solatopupa similis (Bruguiere 1792)
On-line
Web links
- Molluscs of Central Europe: Solatopupa similis (Bruguière 1792)
- Solatopupa similis inthe IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Gargominy, O., Falkner, M. & von Proschwitz, T, 2010. Retrieved December 13, 2013.