Rhodonyx rubescens
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:
Rhodonyx
Species:
R. rubescens
Binomial name
Rhodonyx rubescens
(Deshayes, 1830)
Synonyms[1]
  • Amphibulima (Rhodonyx) rubescens (Deshayes, 1830 ) [2]
  • Succinea rubescens Deshayes, 1830 [3]

Rhodonyx rubescens is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Amphibulimidae. [4]

Distribution

Rhodonyx rubescens has been reported by various workers from Guadeloupe, Marie-Galante, Dominica and Martinique.[1] It is assumed now that this taxon is endemic to Martinique and all other reports are misidentifications.[1]

References

This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference [1]

  1. 1 2 3 4 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 Archived 2011-10-07 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ 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. page 240, pl. 61, figs 26-27.
  3. ↑ Brown A. D. (1881). "Notes on the land-shells of Dominica". American Naturalist 15: 56-57.
  4. ↑ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Rhodonyx rubescens (Deshayes, 1830). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1553133 on 2022-07-10
  • Schileyko, A. A. (1999). Treatise on Recent Terrestrial Pulmonate Molluscs, Part 3: Partulidae, Ailllyidae, Bulimulidae, Orthalicidae, Megaspiridae, Urocoptidae. Ruthenica. Supplement 2: 263-436.


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