Blanfordia japonica (A. Adams 1861) articles

Blanfordia japonica

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Blanfordia japonica is a species of land snail which has an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.^[3]

Drawing of apertural view of a shell. The scale is 1 mm.

Drawing of lateral view of a shell. The scale is 1 mm.

Blanfordia japonica on the forest floor.

This species lives from coastal areas to inland forests.^[3]

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^ ^a ^b ^c Kameda Y. & Kato M. (2011). "Terrestrial invasion of pomatiopsid gastropods in the heavy-snow region of the Japanese Archipelago". BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 118. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-118.
^ (in Japanese) "イツマデガイ" Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine. 日本のレッドデータ検索システム [Japanese Red List Data Book], accessed 17 July 2011.