Drymaeus strigatus

Drymaeus strigatus
Drymaeus strigatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily: Orthalicoidea
Family: Orthalicidae
Genus: Drymaeus
Subgenus: Drymaeus
Species: D. strigatus
Binomial name
Drymaeus strigatus
(Sowerby, 1838)[1]
Synonyms[3]
  • Bulinus strigatus Sowerby, 1838
  • Drymaeus tigrinus Da Costa, 1898[2]

Drymaeus strigatus is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Orthalicidae.

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Distribution

Description

The living animal is brownish-beige, slightly darker just above the foot.[3] The tentacles are whitish at the base and turning light-beige towards the eyes.[3]

References

This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference [3]

  1. ^ Sowerby G. B. (1838). "The conchological illustrations, Bulinus, part 143". London. Plate 143, fig. 95.
  2. ^ Da Costa S. I. (1898). "Remarks on some species of Bulimulus, sect. Drymaeus, and descriptions of land shells from Bolivia, Ecuador and the U.S. of Colombia". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 3: 80-84. page 82, plate 6, fig. 6.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Breure A. S. H. & Mogollón Avila V. (2010). "Well-known and little-known: miscellaneous notes on Peruvian Orthalicidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Zoologische Mededelingen 84. HTM.

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