Tropidophora michaudi

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

This species is endemic to Mauritius.

Original description
Tropidophora fimbriata was originally described as Cyclostoma Michaudi by Jean-Pierre Sylvestre de Grateloup in 1840.

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

C. testa perforata, globoso-conica, solida, striatula, carinis 7 — 8 magis minusve prominentibus, acutiusculis cincta, cinerea vel pallide violacea; spira conica, interdum truncata; anfr. 6 convexis, ultimo basi carina validiore, funiculata ab umbilico infundibuliformi, intus spiraliter sulcato, vix pervio separato; apertura subcirculari; perist. albido, breviter expanso, crenulato, marginibus callo albido junctis, columellari dilatato, crasso, subreflexo, perforationem occultante, ad carinam basalem obsolete canaliculato.