Streptostele musaecola

Streptostele musaecola is a species of small air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Streptaxidae.

Streptostele musaecola
A shell of Streptostele musaecola. The height of the shell is 8.71 mm.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Streptaxoidea
Family:	Streptaxidae
Subfamily:	Enneinae
Genus:	Streptostele
Subgenus:	Tomostele
Species:	S. musaecola
Binomial name
Streptostele musaecola (Morelet, 1860)
Synonyms[1]
Luntia insignis (E. A. Smith, 1898)

Distribution

The indigenous distribution of Streptostele musaecola includes:

• West Africa

This West African species has been widely reported from the Neotropics as Luntia insignis (E. A. Smith, 1898).[1]

The non-indigenous distribution of Streptostele musaecola includes:

• Australia[1]
• Melanesia and Polynesia[1]
• throughout the Caribbean Basin.[1] It was reported as Streptostele musaecola from various Caribbean localities by Hausdorf & Medina Bermúdez (2003).[1][2]
• Dominica - introduced.[1] First reported in 2009.[1]

Ecology

This species is molluscivorous (it eats other mollusks), and its effect on the native malacofauna of Dominica is as yet undocumented.[1]

References

This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference.[1]

1. 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
2. Hausdorf B. & Medina Bermúdez C. I. (2003). "Luntia insignis Smith, 1898, is a synonym of Streptostele (Tomostele) musaecola (Morelet, 1860) (Gastropoda, Streptaxidae) - an African tramp and its distribution in America". Malacologia 45: 185-187, figs 1-4.