Microcystina minima (H. Adams, 1867)

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, pp. 1-39 : 14

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.70.762

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scientific name

Microcystina minima (H. Adams, 1867)
status

 

9. Microcystina minima (H. Adams, 1867) View in CoL Figs 51-53

Macrochlamys minima Adams 1867: 303; pl. 19, fig. 2

Afroguppya rumrutiensis (Preston, 1911) sensu Rowson 2007 (p. 445, fig. 14)

Dupontia sp. in Gerlach and Griffiths 2002

Notes.

The Pemba material matches that from Unguja figured by Rowson (2007) under the name Afroguppya rumrutiensis , and the " Dupontia sp." found on Aldabra ( Gerlach and Griffiths 2002). Although these three populations appear conspecific, the species is not the mainly East African Afroguppya rumrutiensis . The West African Afroguppya solemi de Winter & van Bruggen, 1992 resembles it closely in size and shape, but has obscure spiral sculpture ( de Winter and van Bruggen 1992) whereas these are finely granular. Igor Muratov (pers. comm.; Muratov in press) refers similar material from north-east Mozambique to Microcystina minima , a common species on the Mascarenes (see Griffiths and Florens 2006).