Megalobulimus oblongus

Megalobulimus oblongus
A live specimen of Megalobulimus oblongus from Colombia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Strophocheilidae
Genus:	Megalobulimus
Species:	M. oblongus
Binomial name
Megalobulimus oblongus (Müller, 1774)
Synonyms
Strophocheilus oblongus

Megalobulimus oblongus, also known as Strophocheilus oblongus, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Strophocheilidae.

Distribution

This species occurs in:

• Brazil ^[1]
• Venezuela (Also known as "Guácara") ^[2]
• Barbados and other Lesser Antilles locations
• Uruguay
• Peru
• Trinidad ^[3] and Tobago

References

1. (in Portuguese) Norma Campos Salgado & Arnaldo C. dos Santos Coelho. 2003. Moluscos terrestres do Brasil (Gastrópodes operculados ou não, exclusive Veronicellidae, Milacidae e Limacidae) Archived October 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine . Rev. Biol. Trop. 51 (Suppl. 3): 149-189. (with English abstract)
2. (in Spanish) Diario La Prensa de Monagas. 08/17/2010. La Guácara en peligro de extinción Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine .Editado por Kenneth Rendón.
3. Bland, Thomas (1861). "On the Geographical Distribution of the Genera and Species of Land Shells of the West India Islands with a Catalogue of the species of each island". The Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History. VII.