Tomostele musaecola explained
Tomostele musaecola is a species of small air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Streptaxidae.[1]
Distribution
The indigenous distribution of Tomostele musaecola includes:
This West African species has been widely reported from the Neotropics as Luntia insignis (E. A. Smith, 1898).
The non-indigenous distribution of Tomostele musaecola includes:
- Australia
- Melanesia and Polynesia
- throughout the Caribbean Basin. It was reported as Streptostele musaecola from various Caribbean localities by Hausdorf & Medina Bermúdez (2003).[2]
- Dominica - introduced. First reported in 2009.
Ecology
This species is molluscivorous (it eats other mollusks), and its effect on the native malacofauna of Dominica is as yet undocumented.
References
This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference.[3]
- Holyoak, D. T.; Holyoak, G. A.; Lima, R. F. D.; Panisi, M.; Sinclair, F. (2020). A checklist of the land Mollusca (Gastropoda) of the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, with new records and descriptions of new taxa. Iberus: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Malacología, (Iberus).38(2): 219-319
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Notes and References
- MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Tomostele musaecola (Morelet, 1860). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1446758 on 2022-06-30
- Hausdorf B. & Medina Bermúdez C. I. (2003). "Luntia insignis Smith, 1898, is a synonym of Streptostele (Tomostele) musaecola (Morelet, 1860) (Gastropoda, Streptaxidae) - an African tramp and its distribution in America". Malacologia 45: 185-187, figs 1-4.
- 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