Prestonella bowkeri explained

Prestonella bowkeri is a species of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Bothriembryontidae.

It was previously classified within Prestonellidae. cf.^[1]

Prestonella bowkeri is the type species of the genus Prestonella.

Distribution

This species is endemic to Eastern Cape,^[2] South Africa.^{[3] [4]}

External links

• photo of Prestonella bowkeri

Notes and References

1. Herbert D. G. & Mitchell A. (2008). "Phylogenetic relationships of the enigmatic land snail genus Prestonella: the missing African element in the Gondwanan superfamily Orthalicoidea (Mollusca: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 96(1): 203-221. .
2. Govender V. (2007). "Patterns of Distribution, Diversity and Endemism of Terrestrial Molluscs in South Africa". Thesis. School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal. 219 pp. PDF.
3. Breure B. (23 February 2008) "The extended family". Bram's Snail Site, accessed 7 April 2011.
4. Herbert D. G. (2007). "Revision of the genus Prestonella (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Orthalicoidea: Bulimulidae s. l.), a distinctive component of the African land snail fauna". African Invertebrates 48(2): 1-19. abstract .