''Streptostele'' is a
genus
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of air-breathing
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...
s,
terrestrial
Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial.
Terrestrial may also refer to:
* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on o ...
pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...
gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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s in the subfamily
Enneinae of the family
Streptaxidae
Streptaxidae is a family of carnivorous air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade
Stylommatophora.
Streptaxidae are monophyletic while all subfamilies and several genera are polyphyletic.
Six Streptaxi ...
.
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Distribution
Indigenous distribution of the genus ''Streptostele'' include:
*
Afrotropical
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:
Uganda
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the ...
(4 described species, 2 undescribed species),...
[Wronski T. & Hausdorf B. (2010). "Diversity and body-size patterns of land snails in rain forests in Uganda". '']Journal of Molluscan Studies
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* islands in the
Gulf of Guinea
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*
the Seychelles
*
Comoros
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*
Mascarenes
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[Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of ''Diaphera'' Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". '']Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
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'' 160: 1-16. .
Species
Species within the genus ''Streptostele'' include:
* ''
Streptostele abbreviata''
D. T. Holyoak, G. A. Holyoak & Sinclair, 2020
* ''
Streptostele acicula''
(Morelet, 1877)
* ''
Streptostele alluaudi''
Dautzenberg & Germain, 1914
* ''
Streptostele angustior''
(Preston, 1911)
* ''
Streptostele arambourgi''
Germain, 1934
* ''
Streptostele auriformis''
Connolly, 1922
* ''
Streptostele babaulti''
Germain, 1919
* ''
Streptostele bacillum''
Pilsbry, 1919
* ''
Streptostele bequaerti''
Pilsbry, 1919
* ''
Streptostele bequaertiana'' (
Pilsbry, 1919)
* ''
Streptostele buchholzi''
E. von Martens, 1876
* ''
Streptostele candelula''
Connolly, 1922
* ''
Streptostele centralis''
Pilsbry, 1919
* ''
Streptostele cheranganiensis''
Germain, 1934
* ''
Streptostele clara''
Connolly, 1922
* ''
Streptostele clavulus''
Connolly, 1922
* ''
Streptostele coloba
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''
Pilsbry, 1919
* ''
Streptostele columna''
Connolly, 1922
* ''
Streptostele congoris''
Pilsbry, 1919
* ''
Streptostele constricta''
Connolly, 1922
* ''
Streptostele costulata''
E. von Martens, 1892
* ''
Streptostele crassicrenulata''
Connolly, 1922
* ''
Streptostele crassiplicata''
Connolly, 1922
* ''
Streptostele crenulata''
(E.A. Smith, 1901)
* ''
Streptostele curvata''
Connolly, 1922
* ''
Streptostele curvicolumella'' (
Connolly, 1922)
* ''
Streptostele cylindrica''
Connolly, 1922
* ''
Streptostele decaryi''
(Fischer-Piette, Blanc, F. & Vukadinovic, 1974)
* ''
Streptostele elegans''
(Dautzenberg & Germain, 1914)
* ''
Streptostele elgonensis''
Connolly, 1922
* ''
Streptostele elongata''
Connolly, 1922
* ''
Streptostele exasperata''
Preston, 1912
* ''
Streptostele fallooni''
Connolly, 1922
* ''
Streptostele fastigiata''
(Morelet, 1848)
* ''
Streptostele feai''
Germain, 1912
* ''
Streptostele folini''
(Morelet, 1858)
* ''
Streptostele hasta''
Connolly, 1922
* ''
Streptostele herma''
Connolly, 1912
* ''
Streptostele horei''
E. A. Smith, 1890
* ''
Streptostele inconspicua''
van Bruggen, 1964
* ''
Streptostele iota''
Connolly, 1922
* ''
Streptostele jaeckeli''
Venmans, 1959
* ''
Streptostele jeanneli''
Germain, 1934
* ''
Streptostele jod''
Connolly, 1922
* ''
Streptostele kenyana''
Connolly, 1922
* ''
Streptostele kilimanjaroensis''
Blume, 1965
* ''
Streptostele klemmi''
Blume, 1959
* ''
Streptostele langi''
Pilsbry, 1919
* ''
Streptostele lenta''
(E. A. Smith, 1903)
* ''
Streptostele leopoldvillensis''
Pilsbry, 1919
* ''
Streptostele leroii''
(C. R. Boettger, 1915)
* ''
Streptostele lessensis'' (
Pilsbry, 1919)
* ''
Streptostele limpida''
(E. von Martens, 1897)
* ''
Streptostele milneedwardsi''
(Bourguignat, 1883)
* ''
Streptostele minor''
E. von Martens, 1897
* ''
Streptostele modelli''
Blume, 1952
* ''
Streptostele monotropha''
(Germain, 1934)
* ''
Streptostele moreletiana''
Dohrn, 1866
* ''
Streptostele nitida''
Neubert, 2004
* ''
Streptostele nyiroensis''
Connolly, 1922
* ''
Streptostele ordinaria''
Connolly, 1922
* ''
Streptostele oribates''
Connolly, 1922
* ''
Streptostele osculum''
Connolly, 1922
* ''
Streptostele patruelis''
Connolly, 1922
* ''
Streptostele polymorpha''
Preston, 1912
* ''
Streptostele rutshuruensis''
(Pilsbry, 1919)
* ''
Streptostele sanctuarii''
van Bruggen, 1966
* ''
Streptostele scotti''
Connolly, 1941
* ''
Streptostele signata''
Connolly, 1922
* ''
Streptostele simplex''
E. A. Smith, 1890
* ''
Streptostele sinuilabiata''
Connolly, 1922
* ''
Streptostele streptosteloides''
(E. von Martens, 1897)
* ''
Streptostele subangusta''
E. von Martens, 1891
* ''
Streptostele subvaricosa''
(E. von Martens, 1897)
* ''
Streptostele suradensis''
Connolly, 1931
* ''
Streptostele terebra''
(Preston, 1911)
* ''
Streptostele teres''
Pilsbry, 1919
* ''
Streptostele truncata''
Germain, 1915
* ''
Streptostele unidentata''
Connolly, 1922
* ''
Streptostele urguessensis''
Connolly, 1922
* ''
Streptostele validor''
Connolly, 1922
* ''
Streptostele varicosa''
(d'Ailly, 1910)
* ''
Streptostele venusta''
(E. A. Smith, 1903)
* ''
Streptostele vicina''
(Preston, 1911)
* ''
Streptostele vitroni''
Fischer-Piette, C. P. Blanc, F. Blanc & F. Salvat, 1994
* ''
Streptostele zambiensis''
Pilsbry, 1919
subgenus ?
* "''Streptostele'' (''Streptostele'') species A" from
Uganda
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the ...
* "''Streptostele'' (''Streptostele'') species B" from Uganda
Synonyms
* ''Streptostele bonjongoensis''
Tryon, 1885: synonym of ''
Rhabdogulella buchholzi''
(E. von Martens, 1876) (unnecessary, unused replacement name)
* ''Streptostele dautzenbergi''
Pilsbry, 1919: synonym of ''Streptostele minor''
E. von Martens, 1897 (junior synonym)
* ''Streptostele insignis''
(E. A. Smith, 1898): synonym of ''Streptostele musaecola''
(Morelet, 1860): synonym of ''
Tomostele musaecola''
(Morelet, 1860) (junior synonym)
* ''Streptostele lucida''
(J. S. Gibbons, 1879): synonym of ''Streptostele bawriensis''
(Pilsbry, 1905) (junior secondary homonym replaced by Opeas bawriense Pilsbry, 1905)
* ''Streptostele maheensis''
Connolly, 1925: synonym of ''Streptostele acicula''
(Morelet, 1877) (junior synonym)
* ''Streptostele meridionalis''
van Bruggen, 1966: synonym of ''Streptostele herma''
Connolly, 1912 (junior synonym)
* ''Streptostele musaecola''
(Morelet, 1860): synonym of ''
Tomostele musaecola''
(Morelet, 1860)
* ''Streptostele roccatii''
(Pollonera, 1906): synonym of ''
Primigulella linguifera''
(E. von Martens, 1895)
References
* Thiele, J. (1911). Mollusken der deutschen Zentral-Afrika-Expedition. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der deutschen Zentral-Afrika-Expedition, 1907–1908. Band III, Zoologie I. Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann. Pp. 175–214.
* Holyoak, D. T.; Holyoak, G. A.; Lima, R. F. D.; Panisi, M.; Sinclair, F. (2020). A checklist of the land Mollusca (Gastropoda) of the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, with new records and descriptions of new taxa. Iberus: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Malacología, (Iberus).38(2): 219–319.
External links
Smith, E. A. (1890). On a new genus and some new species of shells from Lake Tanganyika. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 6, 6: 93-96Boettger, C. R. & Haas, F. (1915). Beiträge zur Molluskenfauna des Sudans. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere.
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Streptaxidae