Tomostele musaecola
A shell of Tomostele musaecola. The height of the shell is 8.71 mm.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Streptaxoidea
Family:
Streptaxidae
Subfamily:
Enneinae
Genus:
Tomostele
Species:
T. musaecola
Binomial name
Tomostele musaecola
(Morelet, 1860)
Synonyms[1]
  • Achatina musaecola Morelet, 1860 (original combination)
  • Leptinaria (Luntia) insignis (E. A. Smith, 1898) (junior synonym)
  • Luntia insignis (E. A. Smith, 1898)
  • Streptostele (Tomostele) musaecola (Morelet, 1860)
  • Streptostele insignis (E. A. Smith, 1898) (junior synonym)
  • Streptostele musaecola (Morelet, 1860) ·

Tomostele musaecola is a species of small air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Streptaxidae. [2]

Distribution

The indigenous distribution of Tomostele musaecola includes:

This West African species has been widely reported from the Neotropics as Luntia insignis (E. A. Smith, 1898).[1]

The non-indigenous distribution of Tomostele musaecola includes:

Ecology

This species is molluscivorous (it eats other mollusks), and its effect on the native malacofauna of Dominica is as yet undocumented.[1]

References

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

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 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
  2. ↑ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Tomostele musaecola (Morelet, 1860). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1446758 on 2022-06-30
  3. ↑ Hausdorf B. & Medina Bermúdez C. I. (2003). "Luntia insignis Smith, 1898, is a synonym of Streptostele (Tomostele) musaecola (Morelet, 1860) (Gastropoda, Streptaxidae) - an African tramp and its distribution in America". Malacologia 45: 185-187, figs 1-4.
  • Holyoak, D. T.; Holyoak, G. A.; Lima, R. F. D.; Panisi, M.; Sinclair, F. (2020). A checklist of the land Mollusca (Gastropoda) of the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, with new records and descriptions of new taxa. Iberus: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Malacología, (Iberus).38(2): 219-319


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