title: Tropidophora fimbriata
text: # 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.
  