Zophos baudoni

Zophos baudoni

Zophos cf. baudoni from Dominica.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Rhytidoidea
Family:	Haplotrematidae
Genus:	Zophos
Binomial name
*Zophos baudoni* (Petit, 1853)
Synonyms^[1]
Hyalina baudoni

Zophos baudoni is a species of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Haplotrematidae.

Distribution

Guadeloupe^[1] - Zophos baudoni was described by Petit de la Saussaye from Guadeloupe.^[1]
Dominica^[1] - Robert John Lechmere Guppy (1868)^[2] expressed some doubts whether the Dominican specimens belonged to species Zophos baudoni.^[1] Ramnath & Fields (2002)^[3] were of the same opinion, considering it possibly new to science.^[1]

Zophos baudoni lives on the rainforest floor.^[1]

It is carnivorous and it feeds on earthworms and immature Pleurodonte specimens.^[1]

This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference ^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ 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
^ Guppy R. J. L. (1868). "On the terrestrial mollusks of Dominica and Grenada, with an account of some new species from Trinidad". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4)1: 429-442. page 430.
^ Ramnath N. & Fields A. (2002). "A survey of the land snails of four islands in the Lesser Antilles: Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenada". Abstracts Annual Meeting American Malacological Society, Charleston: 90.