Cleopatra bulimoides
Appearance
Cleopatra bulimoides | |
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Shell of Cleopatra bulimoides (syntype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Family: | Paludomidae |
Genus: | Cleopatra |
Species: | C. bulimoides
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Binomial name | |
Cleopatra bulimoides (Olivier, 1804)
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Cleopatra bulimoides is a species of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Paludomidae.
Cleopatra bulimoides is the type species of the genus Cleopatra.[2]
The holotype was found inside a mummy of an ibis (Alexandria channel, Egypt)
- Varieties
- Cleopatra bulimoides var. richardi Germain, 1911
- Cleopatra bulimoides var. welwitschi E. von Martens, 1897
- Cleopatra bulimoides var. nsendweensis Dupuis & Putzeys, 1902: synonym of Cleopatra nsendweensis (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1902) (basionym)
Distribution
[edit]This species occurs in:
Ecology
[edit]Parasites of Cleopatra bulimoides include the trematode Aspidogaster conchicola.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Ghamizi, M.; Jørgensen, A.; Kristensen, T.K.; Lange, C.; Stensgaard, A.-S.; Van Damme, D. (2020). "Cleopatra bulimoides". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T175131A151146231. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T175131A151146231.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ^ Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.
- ^ Alevs, Philippe V.; Vieira, Fabiano M.; Santos, Cláudia P.; Scholz, Tomáš; Luque, José L. (2015-02-12). "A Checklist of the Aspidogastrea (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) of the World". Zootaxa. 3918 (3): 339–96. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3918.3.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 25781098.
- Bourguignat, J.-R. (1885). Mollusques recueillis par M. Paul Soleillet dans son voyage au Choa (Éthiopie méridionale), 1-48, 1 pl. Paris (Mme Ve Tremblay)
- Brown, D. S. (1980). Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance. Taylor & Francis, London. 1-487
- Connolly, M. (1925). The non-marine Mollusca of Portuguese East Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 12 (3): 105–220, pl. 4–8. Cape Town
External links
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