Bulimulus limnoides
| Bulimulus limnoides | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Orthalicoidea |
| Family: | Orthalicidae |
| Subfamily: | Bulimulinae |
| Genus: | Bulimulus |
| Species: | B. limnoides |
| Binomial name | |
| Bulimulus limnoides (Férussac, 1832) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Bulimulus limnoides is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Bulimulinae.
Apertural view of the shell of Bulimulus limnoides
Distribution
Distribution of Bulimulus limnoides include:
- Guadeloupe[1]
- Dominica[1] - Breure (1974),[2] after having compared the type material of Bulimulus limnoides in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris, France, placed the Dominican taxon in the synonymy of Férussac’s species. Apart from the locality given by George French Angas (1884),[3] the first precise records of this species from the island have been published in 2009.[1]
- Martinique[1]
- ? Saint Vincent[1]
Ecology
Living specimens were found on small shrubs in Dominica.[1]
References
This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference [1]
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". Zoologische Mededelingen 83 http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a13
- ↑ Breure A. S. H. (1974). "Caribbean land molluscs: Bulimulidae, I. Bulimulus". Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 45: 1-80, figs. 1-80, pls 1-7, tables 1-17.
- ↑ Angas G. F. (1884). "On the terrestrial Mollusca of Dominica, collected during a recent visit to that island". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1883: 594-597, figs 1-3.
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