Prestonella nuptialis explained

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.^[1]

Distribution

This species is endemic to Eastern Cape,^[2] South Africa.^{[3] [4]}

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:

The width of the shell of the type species is 8.5 mm. The height of the shell is 15 mm.

References

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Notes and References

1. 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. .
2. 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. PDF.
3. Breure B. (23 February 2008) "The extended family". Bram's Snail Site, accessed 7 April 2011.
4. 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. abstract .