Tropidophora fimbriata

Tropidophora fimbriata is a species of land snail with a gill and an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiidae.



This species is found in the Mascarenes. Subspecies include T. f. rodriguesensis and T. f. haemostoma.

Original description
Tropidophora fimbriata was originally described as Cyclostoma fimbriata by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in 1822.

Lamarck's original text (the type description) in Latin language reads as follows:

C. testa ventricoso-conoidea, subperforata, transversim striata, albido-lutescente; anfractuum margine superiore plicis fimbriato; spira brevi, acuta; apertura lutea. — Lat. bas. 5½ lin.