Bulimulus limnoides
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Bulimulus limnoides is a species
of tropical air-breathing land snail
, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Bulimulinae.
Species
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...
of tropical air-breathing land snail
Land snail
A land snail is any of the many species of snail that live on land, as opposed to those that live in salt water and fresh water. Land snails are terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells, It is not always an easy matter to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less...
, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Bulimulinae.
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 naturelleMuséum national d'histoire naturelleThe Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle is the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France.- History :The museum was formally founded on 10 June 1793, during the French Revolution...
, Paris, France, placed the Dominican taxon in the synonymy of Férussac’s species. Apart from the locality given by George French AngasGeorge French AngasGeorge French Angas , was an English explorer, naturalist and painter.He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, the eldest son of George Fife Angas, prominent in the establishment of the new colony of South Australia. Despite showing remarkable talent in drawing, he was placed in a London...
(1884), the first precise records of this species from the island have been published in 2009. - Martinique
- ? Saint VincentSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSaint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island country in the Lesser Antilles chain, namely in the southern portion of the Windward Islands, which lie at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea where the latter meets the Atlantic Ocean....