Prestonella bowkeri

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Prestonella bowkeri
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Prestonella bowkeri shell drawing (figure 5)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group

Contents

Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Orthalicoidea
Family:
Bothriembryontidae
Subfamily:
Prestonellinae
Genus:
Prestonella
Species:
P. bowkeri
Binomial name
Prestonella bowkeri
(Sowerby, 1889)
Synonyms [1]

Bulimus bowkeri

Prestonella bowkeri is a species of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Bothriembryontidae.

It was previously classified within Prestonellidae. cf. [2] [3]

Prestonella bowkeri is the type species of the genus Prestonella. [1]

Distribution

This species is endemic to Eastern Cape, [4] South Africa. [5] [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Herbert D. G. (2007). "Revision of the genus Prestonella (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Orthalicoidea: Bulimulidae s. l.), a distinctive component of the African land snail fauna". African Invertebrates 48(2): 1-19. abstract Archived 2011-09-03 at the Wayback Machine .
  2. ↑ Herbert D. G. & Mitchell A. (2008). "Phylogenetic relationships of the enigmatic land snail genus Prestonella: the missing African element in the Gondwanan superfamily Orthalicoidea (Mollusca: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 96(1): 203-221. doi : 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01109.x.
  3. ↑ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia . Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN   3-925919-72-4. ISSN   0076-2997.
  4. ↑ Govender V. (2007). "Patterns of Distribution, Diversity and Endemism of Terrestrial Molluscs in South Africa". Thesis. School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal. 219 pp. PDF.
  5. ↑ Breure B. (23 February 2008) "The extended family". Bram's Snail Site, accessed 7 April 2011.


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