Subulina octona

Subulina octona
Five live individuals of Subulina octona on a wet washcloth. Nevis, West Indies
Conservation status
NE[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily: Achatinoidea
Family: Subulinidae
Subfamily: Subulininae
Genus: Subulina
Species: S. octona
Binomial name
Subulina octona
(Bruguière, 1798)

Subulina octona is a species of small, tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Subulinidae.

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Distribution

The native distribution of this species includes:

This species has been introduced to and become established in:

Parasites

Subulina octona serves as an intermediate host for:

See also

References

  1. ^ IUCN (2007). 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 17 September 2008.
  2. ^ "Mollusca". Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
  3. ^ Baker, Horace B. 1927: The mollusca collected by the University of Michigan – Williamson expedition in Venezuela. Occasional Paper mof Museun of zoology. 210:1-51
  4. ^ Richards H. G. & Hummelinck P. W. (1940). "Land & Freshwater Mollusks from Margarita Island, Venezuela". Notulae Naturae 62 1-16.
  5. ^ Hass, Fritz. 1962: Caribbean land molluscs Subulinidae and Oleacinidae. Studies on the Fauna od curaçao and other Caribbean Island, XIII(52):49-60
  6. ^ Martínez E, Rafael y Miranda A, Rafael E. 1968: Aspectos de la reproducción en moluscos pulmonados del área metropolitana de Caracas. En: Estudio de Caracas. Ecología vegetal - fauna Vol:II pp:123=165. Universidad Central de Venezuela. Caracas-Venezuela
  7. ^ Ojasti, Juhani., González Jiménez, Eduardo, Szeplaki Otahola, Eduardo. y García Román, Luis B. 2001: Informe sobre las especies exótica en Venezuela. Ministerio del Ambiente y de los Recursos Naturales Caracas. 207p. ISBN 980-04-1254-9
  8. ^ Rowson B., Warren B. H. & Ngereza C. F. (2010). "Terrestrial molluscs of Pemba Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania, and its status as an “oceanic” island". ZooKeys 70: 1-39. doi:10.3897/zookeys.70.762.
  9. ^ 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
  10. ^ a b c Juřičková L. (2006). "Subulina octona (Bruguière, 1798) – a new greenhouse species for the Czech Republic (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Subulinidae)". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca 5: 1–2. Online serial at <http://mollusca.sav.sk> 30-Jan-2006. PDF.
  11. ^ Wu S.-P., Hwang C.-C., Huang H.-M., Chang H.-W., Lin Y.-S. & Lee P.-F. (2007). "Land Molluscan Fauna of the Dongsha Island with Twenty New Recorded Species". Taiwania 52(2): 145-151. PDF.

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