Subulina octona
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| 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 |
| 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.
A shell of Subulina octona from Bermuda
Distribution
The native distribution of this species includes:
This species has been introduced to and become established in:
- Tanzania[8]
- Dominica[9]
- Czech Republic as a "hothouse alien"[10]
- Great Britain as a "hothouse alien"
- Pratas Islands, Taiwan[11]
- and other areas
Parasites
Subulina octona serves as an intermediate host for:
- Postharmostomum gallinum[10]
- Angiostrongylus cantonensis[10]
See also
- List of introduced molluscs species of Venezuela
- List of molluscs of Falcón state, Venezuela
- List of non-marine molluscs of El Hatillo Municipality, Miranda, Venezuela
References
- ↑ IUCN (2007). 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 17 September 2008.
- ↑ "Mollusca". Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
- ↑ Baker, Horace B. 1927: The mollusca collected by the University of Michigan – Williamson expedition in Venezuela. Occasional Paper of Museum of zoology. 210:1-51
- ↑ Richards H. G. & Hummelinck P. W. (1940). "Land & Freshwater Mollusks from Margarita Island, Venezuela". Notulae Naturae 62 1-16.
- ↑ Hass, Fritz. 1962: Caribbean land molluscs Subulinidae and Oleacinidae. Studies on the Fauna od curaçao and other Caribbean Island, XIII(52):49-60
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 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.
- ↑ 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.
Further reading
- De Almeida Bessa E. C. & De Barros Araujo J. L. (1996). "Ocorrencia de autofecundacao em Subulina octona (Bruguiere) (Pulmonata, Subulinidae) sob condicoes de laboratorio. [Ooccurrence of self-fertilization in Subulina octona (Bruguiere) (Pulmonata, Subulinidae) under laboratorial conditions]". Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 12(3): 719-723.
External links
 |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Subulina octona. |
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.