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Subulina octona
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Subulina octona is a species of small, tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Subulinidae.
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Subulina octona is a species of small, tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrialpulmonategastropodmollusk in the family Achatinidae.[1]
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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 Island, 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
- ^Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 10 January 2019.
- ^"Mollusca"Archived 2012-06-26 at the Wayback Machine. 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. hdl:2027.42/56621.
- ^Richards H. G. & Hummelinck P. W. (1940). "Land & Freshwater Mollusks from Margarita Island, Venezuela". Notulae Naturae 62 1-16. ISBN160483062X
- ^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. ISBN980-04-1254-9
- ^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. PMC3088446. PMID21594041..
- ^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 Mededelingen83
- ^ abcJuřičková, Lucie (2006-01-30). "Subulina octona (Bruguière, 1798) – a new greenhouse species for the Czech Republic (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Subulinidae)". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca. 5: 1–2. doi:10.5817/MaB2006-5-1. ISSN1336-6939.
- ^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. & 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. PMID24802870.
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