Elisolimax flavescens ( Keferstein, 1866 )

Muratov, Igor V., 2010, Terrestrial molluscs of Cabo Delgado and adjacent inland areas of north-eastern Mozambique, African Invertebrates 51 (2), pp. 255-255 : 283

Elisolimax flavescens ( Keferstein, 1866)

Fig. 64

Parmarion flavescens: Keferstein 1866: 70 , pl. 2, figs 2–8 (Inhambane, Mozambique; length 35 mm – contracted).

A common eastern African species, with a general distribution from southern Tanzania to the Eastern Cape in South Africa. Found at two stations on Cabo Delgado. Differs from other continental species of the genus Elisolimax , as well as from the preceding and the following species of the family, by the long, narrow diverticulum of the atrium with two large longitudinal folds inside.

Figures

Figs 62–65. Helicarionidae: (62) “Sitala” jenynsi, shell 7.9×11.0 mm, subadult, stn 8. Urocyclidae: (63) Bukobia uhehensis, length 35 mm, stn 1; (64) Elisolimax flavescens, length 40 mm, stn 8; (65) Urocyclus kirki, length 75 mm, stn 10.