Tropidophora michaudi

Tropidophora michaudi is a species of land snail with a gill and an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiidae.

[1] Tropidophora fimbriata was originally described as Cyclostoma Michaudi by Jean-Pierre Sylvestre de Grateloup in 1840.

[2] Grateloup's original text (the type description) in Latin language reads as follows: C. testa perforata, globoso-conica, solida, striatula, carinis 7 — 8 magis minusve prominentibus, acutiusculis cincta, cinerea vel pallide violacea; spira conica, interdum truncata; anfr.

6 convexis, ultimo basi carina validiore, funiculata ab umbilico infundibuliformi, intus spiraliter sulcato, vix pervio separato; apertura subcirculari; perist.

crasso, subreflexo, perforationem occultante, ad carinam basalem obsolete canaliculato.This article incorporates public domain text from reference.