title: Tropidophora michaudi
text: # 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.
  
  ## Shell description
  
  * Lateral view of the shell
  * Basal view of the shell
  