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Sultana sultana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Orthalicoidea
Family: Orthalicidae
Genus: Sultana
Species:
S. sultana
Binomial name
Sultana sultana
(Dillwyn, 1817)
Synonyms
  • Helix sultana Dillwyn, 1817 (basionym)
  • Orthalicus sultana (Dillwyn, 1817) (unaccepted combination)
  • Orthalicus sultana angustior Preston, 1914 (junior synonym)
  • Orthalicus trullisatus Shuttleworth, 1856 (junior synonym)
  • Sultana sultana angustior (Preston, 1914) (superseded subspecific combination)
  • Sultana sultana sultana (Dillwyn, 1817) (superseded subspecific combination)

Sultana sultana is a species of snail from the genus Sultana. [1] [2]

This species was first described by Lewis Weston Dillwyn in 1817. [3]

Description

Sultana sultana is a land snail. It has a shell height of 87.4 and a diameter 54.5 mm. [4] [5]

Habitat and range

This species occurs widely across South America, findings have been documented in Panama, [4] Colombia, [4] [6] Ecuador, [4] Peru, [4] Bolivia, [4] Brazil, [4] [7] French Guiana, [4] [8] and Suriname. [4] [9] Recent observations through citizen science apps, confirm these documented recordings. [1] [3]

It has an habitat at low altitude and in moist forests. [4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Sultana sultana". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
  2. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Sultana sultana (Dillwyn, 1817). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1442167 on 2021-03-05
  3. ^ a b Registry-Migration.Gbif.Org (2019), GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, GBIF Secretariat, doi: 10.15468/39omei, retrieved 2021-02-27
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Abraham Breure; Valentín Mogollón Avila (12 May 2016). "Synopsis of Central Andean Orthalicoid land snails (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora), excluding Bulimulidae". ZooKeys. 588 (588): 1–199. doi: 10.3897/ZOOKEYS.588.7906. ISSN  1313-2989. PMC  4926695. PMID  27408531. Wikidata  Q24200380.
  5. ^ Neubert, Eike; Gosteli, Margret (2003). The molluscan species described by Robert James Shuttleworth. Naturhistorisches Museum Bern. OCLC  80225611.
  6. ^ Linares EL, Vera ML (2012) Catálogo de los moluscos continentales de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, 360 pp.
  7. ^ Simone LRL (2006) Land and freshwater molluscs of Brazil. EGB/Fapesp, São Paulo, 390 pp.
  8. ^ Massemin D, Lamy D, Pointier J-P, Gargominy O (2009) Coquillages et escargots de Guyane. Seashells and snails from French Guiana. Biotope, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, 456 pp.
  9. ^ Altena CO van Regteren (1975) Land Gastropoda of Surinam, with the description of a new species of Nesopupa. Basteria 39: 29–60.
  • Massemin D., Lamy D., Pointier J.P. & Gargominy O. (2009). Coquillages et escargots de Guyane. Mèze: Biotope. 456 pp.