Bulimulus limnoides explained

Bulimulus limnoides is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Bulimulinae.

Distribution

Distribution of Bulimulus limnoides include:

• Guadeloupe
• Dominica - Breure (1974),^[1] after having compared the type material of Bulimulus limnoides in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris, France, placed the Dominican taxon in the synonymy of Férussac’s species. Apart from the locality given by George French Angas (1884),^[2] the first precise records of this species from the island have been published in 2009.
• Martinique
• ? Saint Vincent

Ecology

Living specimens were found on small shrubs in Dominica.

References

This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference ^[3]

Notes and References

1. Breure A. S. H. (1974). "Caribbean land molluscs: Bulimulidae, I. Bulimulus". Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 45: 1-80, figs. 1-80, pls 1-7, tables 1-17.
2. [George French Angas|Angas G. F.]
3. Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". Zoologische Mededelingen 83 http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a13