Testacella (Testacella) fischeriana Bourguignat 1862
Authors/Creators
- 1. Laboratoire de Production, sauvegarde des espèces menacées et des récoltes, Influence des variations climatiques, Mouloud Mammeri University, Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria
- 2. Via del Giubileo Magno 93, 90015 Cefalù, Italy
- 3. Department of Biomolecular Sciences, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Via Maggetti 22, 61029, Urbino, Italy
Description
Testacella (Testacella) fischeriana Bourguignat, 1862
Fig. 81
Testacella fischeriana – Bourguignat 1862 c: 516–517, pl. 13, figs 5–7 – Environs de Constantine, d’Alger. Giusti et al. 1995: 320, figs 300–301, 303–304 – Sidi Kouzeil, Mount Edough, Annaba, Algeria; Gorges du Rhumel, Costantine, Algeria.
Testacella brondeli – Bourguignat 1862 b: 521 –522, pl. 13, figs 14–16 – Environs de Bone, en Algérie.
Material examined.
No specimens in our samples.
Diagnosis.
Enlarged vas deferens; penis slender, partially enveloped in a muscular-glandular sheath from which the penial retractor emerges; a penial diverticulum originating at the point where the proximal penis ends, and the distal penis begins.
Distribution.
Northeastern Algeria and northern Tunisia (Giusti et al. 1995; Abbes et al. 2010).
Ecology.
Testacella fischeriana live in earthworm burrows and soil crevices, hunting and eating earthworms.
Remarks.
Testacella fischeriana is a well-known species. Giusti et al. (1995) recorded it from Annaba, Sidi Kouzeil, and Constantine.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Bourguignat
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Stylommatophora
- Family
- Vitrinidae
- Genus
- Testacella
- Species
- fischeriana
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Testacella (Testacella) fischeriana Bourguignat, 1862 sec. Ramdini, Liberto, Sadouk, Gregorini & Colomba, 2026
References
- Bourguignat JR (1862 c) Notice sur les espèces vivantes et fossiles du genre Testacella. Revue et Magazine de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée Série II, [1861] 13: 513–524 [pl. 16: figs 1–7, 10–22]. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/20623#page/543/mode/1up
- Giusti F, Manganelli G, Schembri PJ (1995) The non-marine molluscs of the Maltese Islands. Monografie Museo regionale di Scienze naturali, Torino, 607 pp.
- Bourguignat JR (1862 b) Des Limaces algériennes. In: Bourguignat JR (Ed.) Les Spéciléges malacologiques. Baillière, Paris 4: 33–43 [pls 1, 2, pl. 13 fig. 8]. https://archive.org/details/Spiclilegesmala00Bour/page/32/mode/2up
- Abbes I, Liberto F, Castillejo J, Nouira S (2010) A review of slugs and semi-slugs of Tunisia (Testacellidae, Milacidae and Limacidae). Journal of Conchology 40: 219–232. https://conchsoc.org/sites/default/files/jconch/40/2/2010-40211.pdf