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Streptostele musaecola

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superfamily
  
Streptaxoidea

Subfamily
  
Enneinae

Scientific name
  
Streptostele musaecola

Rank
  
Species

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Streptaxidae

Genus
  
Streptostele

Phylum
  
Mollusca

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Similar
  
Huttonella bicolor, Lucidella, Allopeas, Sarasinula, Streptaxidae

Streptostele musaecola is a species of small air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Streptaxidae.

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Distribution

The indigenous distribution of Streptostele musaecola includes:

  • West Africa
  • This West African species has been widely reported from the Neotropics as Luntia insignis (E. A. Smith, 1898).

    The non-indigenous distribution of Streptostele musaecola includes:

  • Australia
  • Melanesia and Polynesia
  • throughout the Caribbean Basin. It was reported as Streptostele musaecola from various Caribbean localities by Hausdorf & Medina Bermúdez (2003).
  • Dominica - introduced. First reported in 2009.
  • Ecology

    This species is molluscivorous (it eats other mollusks), and its effect on the native malacofauna of Dominica is as yet undocumented.

    References

    Streptostele musaecola Wikipedia