Drymaeus strigatus
| Drymaeus strigatus | |
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| Drymaeus strigatus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Orthalicoidea |
| Family: | Bulimulidae |
| Subfamily: | Peltellinae |
| Genus: | Drymaeus |
| Subgenus: | Drymaeus |
| Species: | D. strigatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Drymaeus strigatus (Sowerby, 1838)[1] | |
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Drymaeus strigatus is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bulimulidae.
Shell of Drymaeus strigatus (shell height 21.7 mm)
Habitat of Drymaeus strigatus
Distribution
Description
The living animal is brownish-beige, slightly darker just above the foot.[2] The tentacles are whitish at the base and turning light-beige towards the eyes.[2]
References
This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference [2]
- ↑ Sowerby G. B. (1838). "The conchological illustrations, Bulinus, part 143". London. Plate 143, fig. 95.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Breure A. S. H. & Mogollón Avila V. (2010). "Well-known and little-known: miscellaneous notes on Peruvian Orthalicidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Zoologische Mededelingen 84. HTM.
- ↑ Da Costa S. I. (1898). "Remarks on some species of Bulimulus, sect. Drymaeus, and descriptions of land shells from Bolivia, Ecuador and the U.S. of Colombia". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 3: 80-84. page 82, plate 6, fig. 6.
Further reading
- Pilsbry H. A. (1897-1898). "American Bulimulidae: Bulimulus, Neopetraeus, Oxychona, and South American Drymaeus". Manual of Conchology (2)11: 1-339. page 228.
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