Subulina octona

Subulina octona
Five live individuals of Subulina octona on a wet washcloth. Nevis, West Indies. The yellow coloration is due to the soft parts showing through the transparent and colorless shell.
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily: Achatinoidea
Family: Subulinidae
Subfamily: Subulininae
Genus: Subulina
Species: S. octona
Binomial name
Subulina octona
(Bruguière, 1789)

Subulina octona is a species of small, tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Subulinidae.

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:

Parasites

Subulina octona serves as an intermediate host for:

See also

References

  1. ↑ IUCN (2007). 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 17 September 2008.
  2. ↑ "Mollusca" Archived 2012-06-26 at the Wayback Machine.. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ Richards H. G. & Hummelinck P. W. (1940). "Land & Freshwater Mollusks from Margarita Island, Venezuela". Notulae Naturae 62 1-16. ISBN 160483062X
  5. ↑ Hass Fritz (1962). "Caribbean land molluscs Subulinidae and Oleacinidae". Studies on the Fauna od curaçao and other Caribbean Island. XIII (52): 49–60.
  6. ↑ 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
  7. ↑ 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. ISBN 980-04-1254-9
  8. ↑ 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. PMC 3088446. PMID 21594041. .
  9. ↑ 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
  10. 1 2 3 Juřičková L (2006). "Subulina octona (Bruguière, 1798) – a new greenhouse species for the Czech Republic (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Subulinidae)" (PDF). Malacologica Bohemoslovaca. 5: 1–2.
  11. ↑ 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.
  12. ↑ Pinto, Hudson A., Mati, Vitor LT and 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. PMID 24802870.

Further reading

  • De Almeida Bessa E. C., De Barros Araujo J. L. (1996). "Ocorrencia de autofecundacao em Subulina octona (Bruguiere) (Pulmonata, Subulinidae) sob condicoes de laboratorio" [Ocurrence [sic] of self-fertilization in Subulina octona (Bruguiere) (Pulmonata, Subulinidae) under laboratorial conditions]. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia. 12 (3): 719–723. doi:10.1590/s0101-81751995000300025.
  • 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. PMID 24802870.
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