Naesiotus
| Naesiotus stenogyroides | |
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| Naesiotus stenogyroides | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
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| Genus: | Naesiotus J. C. Albers, 1850[2]
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Naesiotus is a genus of tropical air-breathing land snails, a pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bulimulidae.[1]
Species
Species within the genus Naesiotus include:
- Naesiotus quitensis (Pfeiffer, 1848) - [1]
- Naesiotus luciae (Pilsbry, 1897) [2]
- Naesiotus stenogyroides (Guppy, 1868) - endemic to Dominica[4]
- Naesiotus subcostatus (Haas, 1948) [3]
Distribution
Distribution of the genus Naesiotus include Ecuador, Colombia,[3] Dominica (1 species), Peru,[5] ...
Human use
People are sometimes consuming them raw, but consumption of raw snails is not recommended because snails can be vector of number of parasites.
References
- ^ a b Breure A. S. H. & Romero P. (2012). "Support and surprises: molecular phylogeny of the land snail superfamily Orthalicoidea using a three-locus gene analysis with a divergence time analysis and ancestral area reconstruction (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde: International Journal of Malacology 141(1): 1-20. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/141/001-020.
- ^ Albers J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen, nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet von Joh. Christ. Albers: 1-262. Berlin. page 1962
- ^ a b Mónica Lucía Vera Ardila (2008). "Lista de los géneros de moluscos terrestres de Colombia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Mesogastropoda y Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)" (PDF). Biota Colombiana. 9 (1): 39–62.
- ^ 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
- ^ Weyrauch W. K. (1956). "The Genus Naesiotus with descriptions of new species and notes on others Peruvian Bulimulidae". Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 108: 1-17.
External links
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- Breure A. S. H. (1975). "Caribbean land molluscs: Bulimulidae, II. Plekocheilus and Naesiotus". Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 46: 71-93, pls. 6-8, tables 8-14.