Tomostele musaecola
| Tomostele musaecola | |
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| A shell of Tomostele musaecola. The height of the shell is 8.71 mm. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Streptaxidae |
| Genus: | Tomostele |
| Species: | T. musaecola
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| Binomial name | |
| Tomostele musaecola (Morelet, 1860)
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Tomostele musaecola is a species of small air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Streptaxidae.[2]
Distribution
[edit]The indigenous distribution of Tomostele 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 Tomostele 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][3]
- Dominica - introduced.[1] First reported in 2009.[1]
Ecology
[edit]This species is molluscivorous (it eats other mollusks), and its effect on the native malacofauna of Dominica is as yet undocumented.[1]
References
[edit]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
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Tomostele musaecola (Morelet, 1860). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1446758 on 2022-06-30
- ^ 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.
- Holyoak, D. T.; Holyoak, G. A.; Lima, R. F. D.; Panisi, M.; Sinclair, F. (2020). A checklist of the land Mollusca (Gastropoda) of the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, with new records and descriptions of new taxa. Iberus: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Malacología, (Iberus).38(2): 219-319
External links
[edit]- Morelet, A. (1860). Descriptions de nouvelles espèces de l'Afrique occidentale, rapportées par M. le capitaine Vignon. Journal de conchyliologie. 8 (2): 189-191.
- Smith, E. A. (1898). On some land shells from Trinidad. Journal of Conchology. 9: 27–29
- Espinosa, J. A. & Robinson, D. G. (2021). Annotated checklist of the terrestrial mollusks (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Hispaniola Island. Novitates Caribaea. 17: 71–146
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