Tomostele musaecola | |
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A shell of Tomostele musaecola. The height of the shell is 8.71 mm. | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Streptaxidae |
Genus: | Tomostele |
Species: | T. musaecola
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Binomial name | |
Tomostele musaecola (
Morelet, 1860)
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Synonyms [1] | |
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Tomostele musaecola is a species of small air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Streptaxidae. [2]
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). [1]
The non-indigenous distribution of Tomostele musaecola includes:
This species is molluscivorous (it eats other mollusks), and its effect on the native malacofauna of Dominica is as yet undocumented. [1]
This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference. [1]
Tomostele musaecola | |
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A shell of Tomostele musaecola. The height of the shell is 8.71 mm. | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Streptaxidae |
Genus: | Tomostele |
Species: | T. musaecola
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Binomial name | |
Tomostele musaecola (
Morelet, 1860)
| |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Tomostele musaecola is a species of small air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Streptaxidae. [2]
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). [1]
The non-indigenous distribution of Tomostele musaecola includes:
This species is molluscivorous (it eats other mollusks), and its effect on the native malacofauna of Dominica is as yet undocumented. [1]
This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference. [1]