Page’s Pachystyla Snail (Pachystyla waynepagei)

This species was described in 2000 on the basis of a single subfossil specimen that had been found in 1996 in limestone scree in the Limekiln Cave on the Île aux Aigrettes, Mauritius.

The shell reaches a length of 2.8 cm; it differs from the shells of its close relative, the Two-colored Pachystyla Snail (Pachystyla bicolor (Lamarck)) (see photo below) by lacking a decussate sculpture and by its orange-colored last whorl with a white peripheral band.

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References:

[1] Owen Lee Griffiths: Nine new species of Mascarene land snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Molluscan Research 20(2): 37-50. 2000

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edited: 29.01.2024