Prestonella nuptialis
{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}
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{{Taxobox
| name = Prestonella nuptialis
| image = Prestonella nuptialis shell.png
| image_caption = Drawing of abapertural view of a shell of Prestonella nuptialis from its type description.
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Mollusca
| classis = Gastropoda
| unranked_superfamilia = clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
| superfamilia = Orthalicoidea
| familia = Bothriembryontidae
| subfamilia = Prestonellinae
| genus = Prestonella
| species = P. nuptialis
| binomial = Prestonella nuptialis
| binomial_authority = (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1894)Melvill J. C. & Ponsonby J. H. (1894). "Descriptions of fifteen new species of South-African terrestrial Mollusca". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6)16: [https://archive.org/stream/annalsmagazineof6141894lond#page/90/mode/2up 90]-95. [https://archive.org/stream/annalsmagazineof6141894lond#page/92/mode/2up page 92]. [https://archive.org/stream/annalsmagazineof6141894lond#page/n500/mode/1up Plate 1], figure 5.
| synonyms =
Buliminus nuptialis Melvill & Ponsonby, 1894
}}
Prestonella nuptialis is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Bothriembryontidae.
It was previously classified within Prestonellidae. cf.Herbert D. G. & Mitchell A. (2008). "Phylogenetic relationships of the enigmatic land snail genus Prestonella: the missing African element in the Gondwanan superfamily Orthalicoidea (Mollusca: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 96(1): 203-221. {{doi|10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01109.x}}.{{Bouchet 2005}}
Distribution
This species is endemic to Eastern Cape,Govender V. (2007). "Patterns of Distribution, Diversity and Endemism of Terrestrial Molluscs in South Africa". Thesis. School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal. 219 pp. [http://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10413/366/GovenderV_2007.pdf PDF]. South Africa.Breure B. (23 February 2008) [http://www.ashbreure.nl/snailblog/files/5ffa731cb814eab657b484cdf715c65e-60.html "The extended family"]. Bram's Snail Site, accessed 7 April 2011.Herbert D. G. (2007). "Revision of the genus Prestonella (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Orthalicoidea: Bulimulidae s. l.), a distinctive component of the African land snail fauna". African Invertebrates 48(2): 1-19. [http://www.africaninvertebrates.org.za/Herbert2007_2_168.aspx abstract] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110903104135/http://www.africaninvertebrates.org.za/Herbert2007_2_168.aspx |date=2011-09-03 }}.
The type locality is Craigie Burn, Somerset East, South Africa.
Description
Prestonella nuptialis was described by two British malacologists James Cosmo Melvill (1845-1929) and John Henry Ponsonby-Fane (1848-1916) in 1894. The type description reads in Latin and the English language as follows:
{{cquote|
Buliminus nuptialis, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 5.)
B. testa angustissime umbilicata, delicatula, tenui, succineo-brunnea;
anfractibus quatuor, tribus supra parvis, ultimo perlato, rapide
accrescente, effuso, undique longitudinaliter oblique rude liratis;
apertura oblonga; peristomate simplici, tenui, apud umbilicum
fere clausum, reflexo.
Long. 15, lat. 8·50 mill.
Hab. Craigie Burn, Somerset East (Mrs. Mary Layard Barber). In coll. E. L. Layard.
A small delicate shell, of succinoid character and nearly
allied to B. Bowkeri, Sow., but differing in its fewer whorls,
broader last whorl, coarser longitudinal liration, and in the
absence of any granular sculpture.
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The width of the shell of the type species is 8.5 mm. The height of the shell is 15 mm.
References
External links
- {{Commons category-inline|Prestonella nuptialis}}
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