Subulina octona explained

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

Distribution

The native distribution of this species includes:

• Caribbean
• Cuba^[1]
• Venezuela^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}

This species has been introduced to and become established in:

• Tanzania^[7]
• Dominica^[8]
• Czech Republic as a "hothouse alien"^[9]
• Great Britain as a "hothouse alien"
• Pratas Island, Taiwan^[10]
• and other areas

Parasites

Subulina octona serves as an intermediate host for:

• Postharmostomum gallinum^[9]
• Angiostrongylus cantonensis^[9]
• ^[11]

See also

• List of introduced molluscs species of Venezuela
• List of molluscs of Falcón state, Venezuela
• List of non-marine molluscs of El Hatillo Municipality, Miranda, Venezuela

Further reading

• De Almeida Bessa E. C. . De Barros Araujo J. L. . 1996 . Ocorrencia de autofecundacao em Subulina octona (Bruguiere) (Pulmonata, Subulinidae) sob condicoes de laboratorio.. Occurrence of self-fertilization in Subulina octona (Bruguiere) (Pulmonata, Subulinidae) under laboratorial conditions. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia . 12 . 3. 719–723 . 10.1590/s0101-81751995000300025. free.
• Pinto Hudson A. . Mati Vitor LT . de Melo Alan L. . 2014 . New insights into the life cycle of Platynosomum (Trematoda: Dicrocoeliidae) . Parasitology Research . 113 . 7. 2701–2707 . 10.1007/s00436-014-3926-5 . 24802870.

Notes and References

1. http://www.ecosis.cu/cenbio/biodiversidadcuba/fauna/mollusca.htm "Mollusca"
2. Baker Horace B . 1927 . The mollusca collected by the University of Michigan – Williamson expedition in Venezuela . Occasional Paper of Museum of Zoology . 210 . 1–51 . 2027.42/56621 .
3. Richards H. G. & Hummelinck P. W. (1940). "Land & Freshwater Mollusks from Margarita Island, Venezuela". Notulae Naturae 62 1-16.
4. Hass Fritz . 1962 . Caribbean land molluscs Subulinidae and Oleacinidae . Studies on the Fauna Od Curaçao and Other Caribbean Island . XIII . 52. 49–60 .
5. Martínez E, Rafael y Miranda A, Rafael E. (1968) "Aspectos de la reproducción en moluscos pulmonados del área metropolitana de Caracas" in Estudio de Caracas. Ecología vegetal - fauna Vol:II pp. 123-165. Universidad Central de Venezuela. Caracas-Venezuela
6. Ojasti, Juhani., González Jiménez, Eduardo, Szeplaki Otahola, Eduardo. y García Román, Luis B. (2001) Informe sobre las especies exótica en Venezuela. Ministerio del Ambiente y de los Recursos Naturales Caracas.
7. Rowson B.. Warren B. H.. Ngereza C. F.. amp . 2010. Terrestrial molluscs of Pemba Island, Zanzibar, India, Tanzania, and its status as an "oceanic" island. ZooKeys. 70. 1–39. 10.3897/zookeys.70.762. 21594041. 3088446 . free . .
8. 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
9. Juřičková. Lucie. 2006-01-30. Subulina octona (Bruguière, 1798) – a new greenhouse species for the Czech Republic (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Subulinidae). Malacologica Bohemoslovaca. English. 5. 1–2. 10.5817/MaB2006-5-1. 1336-6939. free.
10. Wu S.-P.. Hwang C.-C.. Huang H.-M.. Chang H.-W.. Lin Y.-S.. Lee P.-F.. amp . 2007. Land Molluscan Fauna of the Dongsha Island with Twenty New Recorded Species. Taiwania. 52. 2. 145–151.
11. Pinto, Hudson A.. Mati, Vitor LT.. de Melo, Alan L.. amp . New insights into the life cycle of Platynosomum (Trematoda: Dicrocoeliidae). Parasitology Research . 113. 7 . 2014. 2701–2707. 10.1007/s00436-014-3926-5 . 24802870.