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Bulimulus limnoides

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Orthalicidae

Scientific name
  
Bulimulus limnoides

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Orthalicoidea

Subfamily
  
Bulimulinae

Rank
  
Species

Bulimulus limnoides

Similar
  
Omalonyx, Bulimulus, Drymaeus, Helicinidae, Subulina

Bulimulus limnoides is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Bulimulinae.

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Distribution

Distribution of Bulimulus limnoides include:

  • Guadeloupe
  • Dominica - Breure (1974), after having compared the type material of Bulimulus limnoides in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris, France, placed the Dominican taxon in the synonymy of Férussac’s species. Apart from the locality given by George French Angas (1884), the first precise records of this species from the island have been published in 2009.
  • Martinique
  •  ? Saint Vincent

    • Ecology

    Living specimens were found on small shrubs in Dominica.

    References

    Bulimulus limnoides Wikipedia
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