| Status | EX |
|---|---|
| Status system | IUCN2.3 |
| Genus | Sinployea |
| Species | decorticata |
| Authority | (Garrett, 1872)[1] |
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Sinployea decorticata a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Charopidae. This species was endemic to the Cook Islands; it is now extinct.
Shell description
Sinployea decorticata was originally discovered and described under the name Pitys decorticata by American naturalist Andrew Garrett in 1872.[1]
Garrett's original text (the type description) reads as follows:
Shell subdiscoid, openly umbilicate, thin, subpellucid, cinereous, under a brownish horn-colored epidermis, adults decorticated, rarely with radiating dashes of reddish brown, arcuately ribbed, ribs lamellar, regular, rather closely set, continued on the base, interstices very finely striated; spire flatly convex; suture channeled; whorls 5, convex, slowly increasing, last one convexly declivous above, rounded beneath, obsoletely angular on the periphery; umbilicus deep, exposing the whorls, about a fourth the diameter of the shell; aperture oblique, orbicular luniform; peristome thin, simple; parietal region very thinly callosed.
The width of the shell is 4 mm. The height of the shell is 2 mm.[1]
Type specimen are stored in the collection of Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.[1]
Distribution
Type locality is Rarotonga Island, Cook Islands.[1]
Habitat
Andrew Garrett commented on the habitat of this land snail, saying it was, "a common species found on the ground in a mountain ravine".[1]
References
This article incorporates public domain text from reference.[1]
- ^ Garrett A. J. (1872) "Descriptions of new species of land and freshwater shells". American Journal of Conchology 7(4): 219-230. Pitys decorticata is on the page 228, plate 19, figure 19.
Further reading
- Solem A. (7 January 1983) Endodontoid land snails from Pacific Islands (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Sigmurethra). Part II. Families Punctidae and Charopidae, Zoogeography. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, ISSN 0015-0754. Image of Sinployea decorticata is on the page 109, text on page 110.