Allopeas myrmekophilos explained

Allopeas myrmekophilos is a species of small, tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae.

Distribution

Allopeas myrmekophilos lives in Malaysia.

References

• Janssen, R. & Witte, V. . Allopeas myrmekophilos n. sp., the first snail reported as living in army ant colonies (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Subulinidae). . Archiv für Molluskenkunde . 2002 . 131 . 1-2 . 212.

External links

• Witte, V., Janssen, R., Eppenstein, A. & Maschwitz, U. . Allopeas myrmekophilos (Gastropoda, Pulmonata), the first myrmecophilous mollusc living in colonies of the ponerine army ant Leptogenys distinguenda (Formicidae, Ponerinae). . Insectes Sociaux . 2002 . 49 . 301-305 .
• Senckenberg - Collection Mollusca SMF: image of holotype