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.
Conservation status
NE[1]
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, 1798)

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:

• Caribbean
• Cuba^[2]
• Venezuela ^{[3][4][5][6][7]}

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 Islands, 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

1. IUCN (2007). 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 17 September 2008.
2. "Mollusca". 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..
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. Juřičková L. (2006). "Subulina octona (Bruguière, 1798) – a new greenhouse species for the Czech Republic (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Subulinidae)". 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. [Ooccurrence of self-fertilization in Subulina octona (Bruguiere) (Pulmonata, Subulinidae) under laboratorial conditions]". Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 12(3): 719-723.
• Pinto, Hudson A., Vitor LT Mati, and Alan L. de Melo. "New insights into the life cycle of Platynosomum (Trematoda: Dicrocoeliidae)." Parasitology research 113.7 (2014): 2701-2707.

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