Cleopatra bulimoides

Cleopatra bulimoides
Shell of Cleopatra bulimoides (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Paludomidae
Genus:	Cleopatra
Species:	C. bulimoides
Binomial name
Cleopatra bulimoides (Olivier, 1804)
Synonyms [1]
Cleopatra pauliBourguignat, 1885 Cleopatra pirothiJickeli, 1881 (junior synonym) Cyclostoma bulimoidesOlivier, 1804 Paludina senegalensisMorelet, 1860 (junior synonym)

Cleopatra bulimoides is a species of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Paludomidae.

Cleopatra bulimoides is the type species of the genus Cleopatra. ^[2]

The holotype was found inside a mummy of an ibis (Alexandria channel, Egypt)

Varieties

• Cleopatra bulimoides var. richardiGermain, 1911
• Cleopatra bulimoides var. welwitschiE. von Martens, 1897
• Cleopatra bulimoides var. nsendweensisDupuis & Putzeys, 1902: synonym of Cleopatra nsendweensis(Dupuis & Putzeys, 1902) (basionym)

Distribution

This species occurs in:

• Egypt
• Benin
• Sudan
• ...

Ecology

Parasites of Cleopatra bulimoides include the trematode Aspidogaster conchicola . ^[3]

References

1. Ghamizi, M.; Jørgensen, A.; Kristensen, T.K.; Lange, C.; Stensgaard, A.-S.; Van Damme, D. (2020). "Cleopatra bulimoides". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2020 e.T175131A151146231. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T175131A151146231.en . Retrieved 18 November 2021.
2. Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN   0-7484-0026-5.
3. Alevs, Philippe V.; Vieira, Fabiano M.; Santos, Cláudia P.; Scholz, Tomáš; Luque, José L. (2015-02-12). "A Checklist of the Aspidogastrea (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) of the World". Zootaxa. 3918 (3): 339–96. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3918.3.2. ISSN   1175-5334. PMID   25781098.

• Bourguignat, J.-R. (1885). Mollusques recueillis par M. Paul Soleillet dans son voyage au Choa (Éthiopie méridionale), 1-48, 1 pl. Paris (Mme Ve Tremblay)
• Brown, D. S. (1980). Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance. Taylor & Francis, London. 1-487
• Connolly, M. (1925). The non-marine Mollusca of Portuguese East Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 12 (3): 105–220, pl. 4–8. Cape Town

External links

• Olivier, G.A. (1804). Voyage dans l'Empire Othoman, l'Égypte et la Perse, fair par ordre du Gouvernement, pendant les six premières années de la République. Tome second, ii pp. + 466 pp. + Errata (1 pp.); Atlas, 2d livraison: vii pp., pl. 18-32. Paris (H. Agasse)