Acmella W. T. Blanford 1869
Authors/Creators
- 1. SM Sehgal Foundation Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Royal Enclave, Sriramapura, Jakkur PO, Bangalore 560064, India. & Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Madhav Nagar, Manipal, Udupi 576104, India. & Department of Zoology, Kamrup College, Chamata, Nalbari, 781306, Assam, India.
- 2. SM Sehgal Foundation Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Royal Enclave, Sriramapura, Jakkur PO, Bangalore 560064, India. & Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Madhav Nagar, Manipal, Udupi 576104, India. & Yenepoya Research Centre, Yenepoya (Deemed to be University), University Road, Derlakatte, Mangalore 575018, India.
Description
Genus Acmella W.T. Blanford, 1869
Type species
Cyclostoma tersum W.H. Benson, 1853 by monotypy (in muscis arborum ad Musmai, prope Cherra-Poonje).
Remarks
Recently, Vermeulen et al. (2015) divided the genus Acmella into two informal groups based on shell sculpture: Group 1 characterized by predominant radial sculpture, and Group 2 defined by predominant spiral sculpture, or radial and spiral sculpture about equally strong, or virtually no sculpture present. Similarly, Das et al. (2021) summarised the different kinds of shell sculpture in species of Acmella, including the typical patterns: radial, irregular, or radial with irregular + weak spiral sculpture, thereby indicating that the variation in shell sculpture extends beyond the two groups recognised by Vermeulen et al. (2015).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- W. T. Blanford
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Littorinimorpha
- Family
- Assimineidae
- Genus
- Acmella
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Acmella Blanford, 1869 sec. Das & Aravind, 2026
References
- Blanford W. T. 1869. Note on Hydrocena tersa, Benson, and H. milium, Bens. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 4 3: 177-179. Available from https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50398876 [accessed 4 Apr. 2026].
- Benson W. H. 1853. Additional character of the shell of the cyclostomatous genus Alycaeus of Gray, with descriptions of its animal inhabitant, - of a fourth species, - and of other new Indian Cyclostomata; also, remarks on an unrecorded character in Diplommatina. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 2 11: 283-287. Available from https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13786021 [accessed 4 Apr. 2026].
- Vermeulen J. J., Liew T. S. & Schilthuizen M. 2015. Additions to the knowledge of the land snails of Sabah (Malaysia, Borneo), including 48 new species. ZooKeys 531: 1-139. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.531.6097