''Striosubulina'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
of small, tropical, air-breathing
land snails,
terrestrial
Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth.
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 or near the ground, as opposed to ...
pulmonate gastropod mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is es ...
s in the family
Achatinidae
Achatinidae (New Latin, from Greek "''agate''") is a family of medium to large sized tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks from Africa.
Well known species include ''Achatina achatina'' the Giant African Snail, and ''L ...
.
Species
The genus ''Striosubulina'' includes the following species:
* ''
Striosubulina striatella
''Striosubulina striatella'' is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae.
Distribution
This species is native to tropical West Africa. It is introduced in the Mascarene ...
'' Rang
References
* Mentioned as a genus at
Subulininae
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