Cleopatra bulimoides explained
Cleopatra bulimoides is a species of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Paludomidae.
Cleopatra bulimoides is the type species of the genus Cleopatra.[1]
The holotype was found inside a mummy of an ibis (Alexandria channel, Egypt)
- Varieties:
- Cleopatra bulimoides var. richardi Germain, 1911
- Cleopatra bulimoides var. welwitschi E. von Martens, 1897
- Cleopatra bulimoides var. nsendweensis Dupuis & Putzeys, 1902: synonym of Cleopatra nsendweensis (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1902) (basionym)
Distribution
This species occurs in:
Ecology
Parasites of Cleopatra bulimoides include the trematode Aspidogaster conchicola.[2]
References
- Bourguignat, J.-R. (1885). Mollusques recueillis par M. Paul Soleillet dans son voyage au Choa (Éthiopie méridionale), 1-48, 1 pl. Paris (Mme Ve Tremblay)
- Brown, D. S. (1980). Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance. Taylor & Francis, London. 1-487
- Connolly, M. (1925). The non-marine Mollusca of Portuguese East Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 12 (3): 105–220, pl. 4–8. Cape Town
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Notes and References
- Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. .
- Alevs. Philippe V.. Vieira. Fabiano M.. Santos. Cláudia P.. Scholz. Tomáš. Luque. José L.. 2015-02-12. A Checklist of the Aspidogastrea (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) of the World. Zootaxa. en. 3918. 3. 339–96. 10.11646/zootaxa.3918.3.2. 25781098. 1175-5334.