Subulina octona
| Subulina octona | |
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| Five live individuals of Subulina octona on a wet washcloth. Nevis, West Indies. The yellow coloration is due to the soft parts showing through the transparent and colorless shell. | |
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| 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. The shell is transparent and colorless at first, but after death it rapidly becomes opaque.
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]
- Platynosomum illiciens (syn.: P. fastosum)[12]
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. ISBN 160483062X
- ↑ 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" in 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. 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
- 1 2 3 Juřičková L. (2006). "Subulina octona (Bruguière, 1798) – a new greenhouse species for the Czech Republic (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Subulinidae)". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca 5: 1–2.
- ↑ 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" (PDF). Taiwania. 52 (2): 145–151.
- ↑ Pinto, Hudson A., Mati, Vitor LT and de Melo, Alan L. (2014). "New insights into the life cycle of Platynosomum (Trematoda: Dicrocoeliidae)". Parasitology research. 113 (7): 2701–2707. doi:10.1007/s00436-014-3926-5. PMID 24802870.
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.
- Pinto, Hudson A., Vitor LT Mati, and Alan L. de Melo. "New insights into the life cycle of Platynosomum (Trematoda: Dicrocoeliidae)." Parasitology research 113.7 (2014): 2701-2707.
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