Drymaeus strigatus

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Drymaeus strigatus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Bulimulidae
Genus: Drymaeus
Species:
D. strigatus
Binomial name
Drymaeus strigatus
(Sowerby, 1838) [1]
Synonyms [2]
  • Bulinus strigatus Sowerby, 1838
  • Drymaeus tigrinus Da Costa, 1898 [3]

Drymaeus strigatus is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bulimulidae.

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Shell of Drymaeus strigatus (shell height 21.7 mm) Drymaeus strigatus shell.png
Shell of Drymaeus strigatus (shell height 21.7 mm)
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Habitat of Drymaeus strigatus

Distribution

Description

The living animal is brownish-beige, slightly darker just above the foot. [2] The tentacles are whitish at the base and turning light-beige towards the eyes. [2]

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References

This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference [2]

  1. ↑ Sowerby G. B. (1838). "The conchological illustrations, Bulinus, part 143". London. Plate 143, fig. 95.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Breure A. S. H. & Mogollón Avila V. (2010). "Well-known and little-known: miscellaneous notes on Peruvian Orthalicidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Zoologische Mededelingen 84. HTM Archived 2018-09-26 at the Wayback Machine .
  3. ↑ Da Costa S. I. (1898). "Remarks on some species of Bulimulus, sect. Drymaeus, and descriptions of land shells from Bolivia, Ecuador and the U.S. of Colombia". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London3: 80-84. page 82, plate 6, fig. 6.

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