Huttonella bicolor
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Huttonella bicolor is a species
of small air-breathing land snail
, a terrestrial
pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Streptaxidae
.
This species occurs in islands and countries including:
Species
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...
of small air-breathing land snail
Land snail
A land snail is any of the many species of snail that live on land, as opposed to those that live in salt water and fresh water. Land snails are terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells, It is not always an easy matter to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less...
, a terrestrial
Terrestrial animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...
pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Streptaxidae
Streptaxidae
Streptaxidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in theStylommatophora. Six Streptaxidae subfamilies are accepted in the 2005 taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi....
.
Distribution
The historical area of origin of Huttonella bicolor is unknown. Gerlach & Bruggen (1999) hypothetized, that its origin is probably Afro-Oriental.This species occurs in islands and countries including:
- Dominica - introduced. First reported in 2009.
- Brazil - First report in 2008.
- India
- Nicaragua
- Australia
- the Seychelles - introduced in the mid-19th century, first recorded in 1867
- Mascarenes
Further reading
- Naggs F. (1989). "Gulella bicolor (Hutton) and its implications for the taxonomy of streptaxids". Journal of Conchology 33: 165-168.
- Stoliczka F.Ferdinand StoliczkaFerdinand Stoliczka was a Moravian palaeontologist who worked in India on paleontology, geology and various aspects of zoology. He died of high altitude sickness during an expedition across the Himalayas.-Early life:Stoliczka was born at the lodge Zámeček near Kroměříž in Moravia...
(1871). "Notes on terrestrial Mollusca from the neighbourhood of Moulmein, with descriptions of new species". J. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 40: 143-177.
External links
- Huttonella bicolor on the UF / IFASInstitute of Food and Agricultural SciencesThe University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences is a federal-state-county partnership dedicated to developing knowledge in agriculture, human and natural resources, and the life sciences, and enhancing and sustaining the quality of human life by making that information...
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