Troglolestes sokolovi

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Troglolestes sokolovi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked):clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Parmacelloidea
Family: Trigonochlamydidae
Subfamily: Trigonochlamydinae
Genus:Troglolestes
Ljovushkin & Matiokin, 1965 [1]
Species:T. sokolovi
Binomial name
Troglolestes sokolovi
Liovushkin & Matiokin, 1965 [1]

Troglolestes sokolovi is a species of predatory air-breathing land slug. It is a shell-less pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Trigonochlamydidae. [2]

In biology, a species ( ) is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. Other ways of defining species include their karyotype, DNA sequence, morphology, behaviour or ecological niche. In addition, paleontologists use the concept of the chronospecies since fossil reproduction cannot be examined. While these definitions may seem adequate, when looked at more closely they represent problematic species concepts. For example, the boundaries between closely related species become unclear with hybridisation, in a species complex of hundreds of similar microspecies, and in a ring species. Also, among organisms that reproduce only asexually, the concept of a reproductive species breaks down, and each clone is potentially a microspecies.

Slug common name for an apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc

Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word slug is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced shell, or only a small internal shell, particularly sea slugs and semislugs.

Trigonochlamydidae family of molluscs

Trigonochlamydidae is a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial gastropod molluscs in the clade Eupulmonata.

Contents

Troglolestes sokolovi is the only species in the genus Troglolestes.

The generic name Troglolestes contains the suffix -lestes, that means "robber". [3]

Distribution

The distribution of Troglolestes sokolovi includes only its type locality.

The type locality of Troglolestes sokolovi is the Vorontzovskaya Cave near Sochi, Russia. [2]

Sochi City in Krasnodar Krai, Russia

Sochi is a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the Black Sea coast near the border between Georgia/Abkhazia and Russia. The Greater Sochi area, which includes territories and localities subordinated to Sochi proper, has a total area of 3,526 square kilometers (1,361 sq mi) and sprawls for 145 kilometers (90 mi) along the shores of the Black Sea near the Caucasus Mountains. The area of the city proper is 176.77 square kilometers (68.25 sq mi). According to the 2010 Census, the city had a permanent population of 343,334, up from 328,809 recorded in the 2002 Census, making it Russia's largest resort city. Being part of the Caucasian Riviera, it is one of the very few places in Russia with a subtropical climate, with warm to hot summers and mild winters.

Ecology

Troglolestes sokolovi inhabits the cave. [2] Animals inhabiting caves are called troglobites. It was discovered as the first species of troglobite slug in 1965. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 (in Russian) Левушкин С. И. & Матекин П. В. [Liovushkin S. I. & Matiokin P. V.] (1965). "Biospeliologia Sovetica XXV. Troglolestes sokolovi gen. n., sp. n. – первый троглобионтный слизень. Бюллетень Московского общества испытателей природы, отдел биологический". ["Biospeliologia Sovetica XXV. Troglolestes sokolovi gen. n., sp. n. – the first troglobiontic slug"]. Byulleten Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytatelei Prirody, otdel biologiya70(3): 35-46.
  2. 1 2 3 Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V.(published online on December 22, 2009). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.
  3. ↑ Suvorov A. N. (2003). "A new species and genus of carnivorous slugs (Pulmonata Trigonochlamydidae) from West Transcaucasia". Ruthenica13: 149-152. abstract.
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