Tomostele musaecola
| Streptostele musaecola | |
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| A shell of Streptostele musaecola. The height of the shell is 8.71 mm. | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Species: | S. musaecola
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| Streptostele musaecola (Morelet, 1860)
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Luntia insignis (E. A. Smith, 1898) | |
Streptostele musaecola is a species of small air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Streptaxidae.
Distribution
The indigenous distribution of Streptostele musaecola includes:
This West African species has been widely reported from the Neotropics as Luntia insignis (E. A. Smith, 1898).[1]
The non-indigenous distribution of Streptostele musaecola includes:
- Australia[1]
- Melanesia and Polynesia[1]
- throughout the Caribbean Basin.[1] It was reported as Streptostele musaecola from various Caribbean localities by Hausdorf & Medina Bermúdez (2003).[1][2]
- Dominica - introduced.[1] First reported in 2009.[1]
Ecology
This species is molluscivorous (it eats other mollusks), and its effect on the native malacofauna of Dominica is as yet undocumented.[1]
References
This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference.[1]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j 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
- ^ Hausdorf B. & Medina Bermúdez C. I. (2003). "Luntia insignis Smith, 1898, is a synonym of Streptostele (Tomostele) musaecola (Morelet, 1860) (Gastropoda, Streptaxidae) - an African tramp and its distribution in America". Malacologia 45: 185-187, figs 1-4.
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