Blanfordia bensoni explained

Blanfordia bensoni is a species of land snail which has an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.

Blanfordia bensoni is the type species of the genus Blanfordia.^[1]

Distribution

This species is endemic to Japan.^[2] The type locality is "Matsumai, Yesso", Hokkaido.

It is a Vulnerable species.^[3]

Description

The height of the shell is 8.5 mm.^[4]

Ecology

This species lives as a terrestrial snail in inland forests.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Davis G. M. (1979). "The origin and evolution of the gastropod family Pomatiopsidae, with emphasis on the Mekong river Triculinae". Academy of natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Monograph 20: 1-120. at Google books.
2. Kameda Y. & Kato M. (2011). "Terrestrial invasion of pomatiopsid gastropods in the heavy-snow region of the Japanese Archipelago". BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 118. .
3. "オカマメタニシ" . 日本のレッドデータ検索システム [Japanese Red List Data Book], accessed 17 July 2011.
4. Barker G. M. (2001). Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. In" Barker G. M. (ed.) The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, . 1-146, page 37.