Streptostele
Appearance
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a shell of Streptostele musaecola | |
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(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
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Genus: | Streptostele |
Streptostele is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.[2]
Distribution
Indigenous distribution of the genus Streptostele include:
- Afrotropical:[2] Uganda (4 described species, 2 undescribed species),...[3]
- islands in the Gulf of Guinea[2]
- the Seychelles[2]
- Comoros[2]
- Mascarenes[2]
Species
Species within the genus Streptostele include:
subgenus Graptostele Pilsbry, 1919[4]
- Streptostele teres Pilsbry, 1919[3]
subgenus Raffraya Bourguignat, 1883[5]
- Streptostele horei E. A. Smith, 1890[3]
subgenus Streptostele
- Streptostele bacillum Pilsbry, 1919[3]
- Streptostele coloba Pilsbry, 1919[3]
subgenus Tomostele Ancey, 1885[6]
- Streptostele musaecola (Morelet, 1860)[7]
subgenus ?
- "Streptostele (Streptostele) species A" from Uganda[3]
- "Streptostele (Streptostele) species B" from Uganda[3]
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References
- ^ Dohrn (1866). Malak. Bl. 13: 128.
- ^ a b c d e f Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of Diaphera Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 1-16. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00598.x.
- ^ a b c d e f g Wronski T. & Hausdorf B. (2010). "Diversity and body-size patterns of land snails in rain forests in Uganda". Journal of Molluscan Studies 76(1): 87-100. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyp048.
- ^ Pilsbry H. A. (1919). "A review of the land mollusks of the Belgian Congo chiefly based on the collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909–1915". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 40(1): 1-370. pages 183, 191.
- ^ Bourguignat J. R. (1883). Ann. Sci. nat. Paris, Zool. (6)15: 66.
- ^ Ancey C. F. (1885). "Nouvelles contributions malacologiques". Bulletin Societé malacologique de France 2: 113-146. page 143.
- ^ 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