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Limicolaria Martensiana
''Limicolaria martensiana'' is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae. The specific name (zoology), specific name ''martensiana'' is in honor of German zoologist Eduard von Martens. Distribution This species occurs in Africa, in the following countries: * List of non-marine molluscs of Tanzania, TanzaniaWronski T. & Hausdorf B. (2010). "Diversity and body-size patterns of land snails in rain forests in Uganda". ''Journal of Molluscan Studies'' 76(1): 87-100. . * List of non-marine molluscs of Kenya, Kenya * List of non-marine molluscs of Uganda, Uganda Description This species was originally discovered and described by the British malacologist Edgar Albert Smith in 1880. Smith's original text (the type description) reads as follows: References This article incorporates public domain text from the reference {{Taxonbar, from=Q6549412 Achatinidae Gastr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gastropod Shell
The gastropod shell is part of the body of a Gastropoda, gastropod or snail, a kind of mollusc. The shell is an exoskeleton, which protects from predators, mechanical damage, and dehydration, but also serves for muscle attachment and calcium storage. Some gastropods appear shell-less (slugs) but may have a remnant within the mantle, or in some cases the shell is reduced such that the body cannot be retracted within it (semi-slug). Some snails also possess an operculum that seals the opening of the shell, known as the Aperture (mollusc), aperture, which provides further protection. The study of mollusc shells is known as conchology. The biological study of gastropods, and other molluscs in general, is malacology. Shell morphology terms vary by species group. Shell layers The gastropod shell has three major layers secreted by the Mantle (mollusc), mantle. The calcareous central layer, tracum, is typically made of calcium carbonate precipitated into an organic matrix known as c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terrestrial Animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land (e.g. cats, dogs, ants, spiders), as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water (e.g. fish, lobsters, octopuses), and amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats (e.g. frogs and newts). Some groups of insects are terrestrial, such as ants, butterflies, earwigs, cockroaches, grasshoppers and many others, while other groups are partially aquatic, such as mosquitoes and dragonflies, which pass their larval stages in water. Terrestrial animals tend to be more developed and intelligent than aquatic animals. Terrestrial classes The term "terrestrial" is typically applied to species that live primarily on the ground, in contrast to arboreal species, which live primarily in trees. There are other less common terms that apply to specific groups of terrestrial animals: *Saxicolous creatures are rock dwelling. "Saxicolous" is derived from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apex (mollusc)
In anatomy, an apex (adjectival form: apical) is part of the shell of a mollusk. The apex is the pointed tip (the oldest part) of the shell of a gastropod, scaphopod, or cephalopod. The apex is used in end-blown conches. Gastropods The word "apex" is most often used to mean the tip of the spire of the shell of a gastropod. The apex is the first-formed, and therefore the oldest, part of the shell. To be more precise, the apex would usually be where the tip of the embryonic shell or protoconch is situated, if that is still present in the adult shell (often it is lost or eroded away). Coiled gastropod shells The phrase apical whorls, or protoconch, means the whorls that constitute the embryonic shell at the apex of the shell, especially when this is clearly distinguishable from the later whorls of the shell, otherwise known as the teleoconch. Comparison of the apical part and the whole shell of ''Otukaia kiheiziebisu'': File:Calliostoma kiheiziebisu apex.png File:Calliostoma k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gastropod Shell
The gastropod shell is part of the body of a Gastropoda, gastropod or snail, a kind of mollusc. The shell is an exoskeleton, which protects from predators, mechanical damage, and dehydration, but also serves for muscle attachment and calcium storage. Some gastropods appear shell-less (slugs) but may have a remnant within the mantle, or in some cases the shell is reduced such that the body cannot be retracted within it (semi-slug). Some snails also possess an operculum that seals the opening of the shell, known as the Aperture (mollusc), aperture, which provides further protection. The study of mollusc shells is known as conchology. The biological study of gastropods, and other molluscs in general, is malacology. Shell morphology terms vary by species group. Shell layers The gastropod shell has three major layers secreted by the Mantle (mollusc), mantle. The calcareous central layer, tracum, is typically made of calcium carbonate precipitated into an organic matrix known as c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Type Description
A species description is a formal description of a newly discovered species, usually in the form of a scientific paper. Its purpose is to give a clear description of a new species of organism and explain how it differs from species that have been described previously or are related. In order for species to be validly described, they need to follow guidelines established over time. Zoological naming requires adherence to the ICZN code, plants, the ICN, viruses ICTV, and so on. The species description often contains photographs or other illustrations of type material along with a note on where they are deposited. The publication in which the species is described gives the new species a formal scientific name. Some 1.9 million species have been identified and described, out of some 8.7 million that may actually exist. Millions more have become extinct throughout the existence of life on Earth. Naming process A name of a new species becomes valid (available in zo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limicolaria Martensiana Shell 2
''Limicolaria'' is a genus of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae. Species Species within the genus ''Limacolaria'' include: *''Limicolaria abinsiensis'' Shackleford and Spence 1916 *''Limicolaria adansoni'' Pfeiffer, 1861 *''Limicolaria aurora'' Jay, 1839 - Cameroun, Senegal *''Limicolaria cailliaudi'' Pfeiffer *''Limicolaria charbonnieri'' Bourguignat, 1889 - Congo *''Limicolaria dimidiata'' Martens, 1880 - Sudan *''Limicolaria distincta'' Putzeys, 1898 - Congo *'' Limicolaria flammea'' Müller, 1774 - Nigeria **'' Limicolaria flammea festiva'' von Martens, 1869 - Sierra Leone **'' Limicolaria flammea spekiana'' Grandidier, 1881 - Sudan *'' Limicolaria flammulata'' Pfeiffer, 1847 *'' Limicolaria kambeul'' Bruguiere, 1792 - Sudan, Senegal **''Limicolaria kambeul turriformis'' Bruguiere, 1792 *''Limicolaria martensi'' Martens - Africa **''Limicolaria martensi karagweensis'' Kobelt, 1913 - Congo ** ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Non-marine Molluscs Of Uganda
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List Of Non-marine Molluscs Of Kenya
The non-marine molluscs of Kenya are a part of the molluscan fauna of Kenya ( wildlife of Kenya). A number of species of non-marine molluscs are found in the wild in Kenya. There are 514 species of land snails in Kenya.Wronski T. & Hausdorf B. (2010). "Diversity and body-size patterns of land snails in rain forests in Uganda". ''Journal of Molluscan Studies'' 76(1): 87–100. . Freshwater gastropods Thiaridae * ''Melanoides tuberculata'' (O. F. Müller, 1774) Lymnaeidae * ''Radix natalensis'' (Krauss, 1848) Land gastropods Land gastropods in Kenya include: Cyclophoridae * '' Elgonocyclus koptaweliensis'' (Germain, 1934) Maizaniidae * ''Maizania elatior'' (Martens, 1892) * ''Maizania volkensi'' (Martens, 1895) Veronicellidae * ''Laevicaulis stuhlmanni'' (Simroth, 1895) Succineidae * '' Quickia concisa'' (Morelet, 1849) Valloniidae * ''Pupisoma'' (''Ptychopatula'') ''dioscoricola'' (C. B. Adams, 1845) Vertiginidae * ''Nesopupa'' (''Afripupa'') ''bisulcata'' (Jic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journal Of Molluscan Studies
The ''Journal of Molluscan Studies'' is the peer-reviewed scientific journal of the Malacological Society of London, covering research in malacology.About the journal accessed 6 December 2010. Previous names of this journal include ''Proceedings of the Malacological Society'', and ''Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London'' (abbreviated as ''Proc. Malacol. Soc. Lond.''). Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed by ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Non-marine Molluscs Of Tanzania
The non-marine molluscs of Tanzania are a part of the molluscan fauna of Tanzania (wildlife of Tanzania). A number of species of non-marine molluscs are found in the wild in Tanzania. There are 417 species of land snails in Tanzania.Wronski T. & Hausdorf B. (2010). "Diversity and body-size patterns of land snails in rain forests in Uganda". ''Journal of Molluscan Studies'' 76(1): 87-100. . Freshwater gastropods Thiaridae * ''Melanoides tuberculata'' (O. F. Müller, 1774) Lymnaeidae * ''Radix natalensis'' (Krauss, 1848) Land gastropods Land gastropods in Tanzania include: Assimineidae - otherwise marine or salt marsh family, the terrestrial assimineid occur in Tanzania * ''"Assiminea" aurifera'' Preston, 1912 - previously '' Assimania aurifera''Rowson B., Warren B. H. & Ngereza C. F. (2010). "Terrestrial molluscs of Pemba Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania, and its status as an "oceanic" island". ''ZooKeys'' 70: 1-39. . Cyclophoridae * ''Cyathopoma azaniense'' Verdcourt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduard Von Martens
Eduard von Martens (18 April 1831 – 14 August 1904) also known as ''Carl'' or ''Karl Eduard von Martens'', was a German zoologist. Born in Stuttgart in 1831, von Martens attended university in University of Tübingen, Tübingen, where he graduated in 1855. He then moved to Berlin, where he would be based for the remainder of his career, both at the Zoological Museum of the Berlin University (from 1855) and, from 1859 on, at the . In 1860, he embarked on the ''Thetis'' expedition of the Prussian expedition to Eastern Asia. When the expedition returned to Europe in 1862, von Martens continued to travel around Maritime Southeast Asia for 15 months. He published the results of the "Thetis" expedition in two volumes, constituting the Zoologischer Theil of the "Preussische Expedition nach Ost-Asien." Vol. ii, consisting of 447 pages and 22 plates, contained a very full account of the land molluscs. Back in Berlin, von Martens was curator of the malacological and other invertebrate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Specific Name (zoology)
In zoological nomenclature, the specific name (also specific epithet or species epithet) is the second part (the second name) within the scientific name of a species (a binomen). The first part of the name of a species is the name of the genus or the generic name. The rules and regulations governing the giving of a new species name are explained in the article species description. For example, the scientific name for humans is ''Homo sapiens'', which is the species name, consisting of two names: ''Homo'' is the " generic name" (the name of the genus) and ''sapiens'' is the "specific name". Historically, ''specific name'' referred to the combination of what are now called the generic and specific names. Carl Linnaeus, who formalized binomial nomenclature, made explicit distinctions between specific, generic, and trivial names. The generic name was that of the genus, the first in the binomial, the trivial name was the second name in the binomial, and the specific the proper term for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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