title: Suboestophora hispanica
text: # Suboestophora hispanica
  
  Suboestophora hispanica is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Trissexodontidae within the Helicoidea.
  
  Suboestophora hispanica is the type species of the genus Suboestophora.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  This species is endemic to Spain. The type locality is Valencia, Spain.
  
  ## Description
  
  Suboestophora hispanica was originally described under the name Helicodonta hispanica by Gerard Pierre Laurent Kalshoven Gude in 1910.
  
  Gude's original text (the type description) reads as follows:
  
     Shell moderately umbilicated, lenticular, fulvous brown, rather thin,
     sub-translucent; the nepionic whorls shining, the remainder dull, finely closely ribbed, the ribs regularly curved and becoming more distant on the last quarter-whorl. Spire depressed, apex prominent, suture shallow. Whorls 5½, a little rounded above, flattened below, obtusely angulated above the periphery, increasing slowly and regularly, the last ascending a little in front. Aperture crescent-shaped, oblique, margins distant, united by a very thin callus on the parietal wall, which is finely granulated. Peristome curved, scarcely thickened, reflexed, livid; upper margin a little arcuate at the junction with the shell-wall, curved slightly forward, then suddenly receding, basal nearly straight, columellar receding a little at first, then curved forward, triangularly dilated longitudinally, and impinging upon the umbilicus, which is deep and cylindrical. Diam. maj. 11, min. 10 mm.; alt. 5 mm.
     Hab. — Valencia, Spain.
     Type in my collection.
  
  | 1910 photo of the shell from the original description | Photo showing apical, apertural and umbilical view of a shell |
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