Amphibulima patula

Amphibulima patula
A live individual of Amphibulima patula dominicensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Orthalicoidea
Family: Amphibulimidae
Genus: Amphibulima
Species: A. patula
Binomial name
Amphibulima patula
(Bruguière, 1792)[1]
Synonyms

Bulimus patulus Bruguière, 1792

Amphibulima patula is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Amphibulimidae.

Subspecies

Subspecies of Amphibulima patula include:

Comparison of orange-yellowish and dark brown Amphibulima patula dominicensis:

Live Amphibulima patula dominicensis
Live Amphibulima patula dominicensis

Distribution

The nominate taxon Amphibulima patula patula has been reported from Guadeloupe (probably now extinct) and Marie-Galante.[3] The type locality is Guadeloupe.

Amphibulima patula dominicensis is endemic to Dominica.[3]

Another variety has been reported from Saint Kitts and Saba.[3]

Description

Amphibulima patula has large foot, that is not completely retracted into the shell in living specimen.[2] But when the live animal is immersed into the preserving fluid, then it rectract completelly within the shell.[2]

Adult snail is about 2.5 cm.[4] It is called a slug-like snail because the shell is relatively small in proportion to the body and with one large, ear-like whorl and two small whorls.[4] Color is yellowish brown.[4]

This species could be confused with the common amber snails (Succinea), especially the juveniles.[4] The Amphibulima has much coarser sculpture than the amber snails.[4]

apertural view of the shell of Amphibulima patula dominicensis
abapertural view of the shell of Amphibulima patula dominicensis

The jaw and radula of Amphibulima patula dominicensis was described by Bland & Binney in 1874.[5]

Ecology

Amphibulima patula dominicensis is frequently found on banana and Citrus plants, where it may feed on the leaves.[3] They also eat leaves of Virginia pepperweed Lepidium virginicum and Cakile lanceolata.[2] They eat lettuce in captivity.[2]

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference [2] and CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference [3] and a public domain work of the United States Government from the reference.[4]

  1. ↑ Bruguière J. G. (1792). Encycl. meth. i, page 305.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Pilsbry H. A. (1899). "American Bulimulidae: North American and Antillean Drymaeus, Leiostracus, Orthalicinae and Amphibuliminae". Manual of Conchology (2)12: i-iii, 1-258, pls 1-64. Amphibulima patula is on the page 234-237, plate 61, figs 14-19.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 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
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Stange L. A. (created September 2004, updated March 2006). "Snails and Slugs of Regulatory Significance to Florida". Division of Plant Industry, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. accessed 27 August 2010.
  5. ↑ Bland T. & Binney W. G. (1874). "XIX—On the Lingual Dentition of Certain Terrestrial Pulmonata Foreign to the United States. Additional note on the genus Amphibulima". Annals of The Lyceum of Natural History of New York 10(1): 219-225. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1874.tb00041.x.

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