Blanfordia bensoni is a species of land snail which has an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.
Blanfordia bensoni is the type species of the genus Blanfordia.Davis G. M. (1979). "The origin and evolution of the gastropod family Pomatiopsidae, with emphasis on the Mekong river Triculinae". Academy of natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Monograph 20: 1-120. at Google books.
Distribution This species is endemic to Japan.Kameda Y. & Kato M. (2011). "Terrestrial invasion of pomatiopsid gastropods in the heavy-snow region of the Japanese Archipelago". BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 118. . The type locality is "Matsumai, Yesso", Hokkaido.
It is a Vulnerable species. "オカマメタニシ" . 日本のレッドデータ検索システム [Japanese Red List Data Book], accessed 17 July 2011.
Description The height of the shell is 8.5 mm.Barker G. M. (2001). Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. In" Barker G. M. (ed.) The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, . 1-146, page 37.
Ecology This species lives as a terrestrial snail in inland forests.
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