Subulina striatella

Subulina striatella
Subulina striatella
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. striatella
Binomial name
Subulina striatella
(Rang, 1831)
Synonyms

S. grandis Madge, 1938

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

Distribution

This species is native to tropical West Africa. It is introduced in the Mascarene Islands: (Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues).[1]

References

  1. Griffiths Owen.L. & Florens Vincent F.B., Non-Marine Molluscs of the Mascarene Islands, Bioculture Press, Mauritius 2006, ISBN 99949-22-05-X


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