Streptartemon glaber explained

Streptartemon glaber is a species of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Streptaxidae.^[1]

Subspecies:

• Streptartemon glaber aroae (H. B. Baker, 1925)
• Streptartemon glaber glaber (L. Pfeiffer, 1850)
• Streptartemon glaber normalis (Jousseaume, 1889)

Distribution

The distribution of Streptartemon glaber includes:

• Puerto Rico
• U.S. Virgin Islands
• Saint Thomas
• Saint Croix
• Dominica - The effect of this introduced, carnivorous species on the native Dominican malacofauna is undocumented as yet.
• Barbados
• Trinidad
• Tobago
• Venezuela
• Guyana
• Suriname
• Brazil^[2]

References

This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference.^[3]

• Charles, L. (2016). Inventaire de mollusques terrestres de Guadeloupe, Petites Antilles: données préliminaires. Journal MalaCo. 12: 47-56.
• Breure, A. S. H., Hovestadt, A., Fields, A. & Robinson, D. G. (2016). The land Mollusca (Gastropoda) of Saint Kitts and Nevis (Lesser Antilles), with description of a new species. The Nautilus. 130(2): 27-52.

External links

• Pfeiffer, L. (1850). Descriptions of twenty-four new species of Helicea, from the collection of H. Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 17 (197-198)
• conchyliologica 57.pdf Hovestadt A. & Neckheim C. M. (2020). A critical checklist of the non-marine molluscs of St. Martin, with notes on the terrestrial malacofauna of Anguilla and Saint-Barthélemy, and the description of a new subspecies. Folia Conchyliologica. 57: 1-38.

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Streptartemon glaber (L. Pfeiffer, 1850). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1433569 on 2022-06-27
2. Salgado N. C. & Coelho A. C. S. (2003). "Moluscos terrestres do Brasil (Gastrópodes operculados ou não, exclusive Veronicellidae, Milacidae e Limacidae)". Rev. Biol. Trop. 51(Suppl. 3): 149-189. (with English abstract), PDF .
3. 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