Drymaeus eurystomus

Drymaeus eurystomus is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bulimulidae.

Drymaeus eurystomus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Orthalicoidea
Family:
Bulimulidae
Subfamily:
Peltellinae
Genus:
Drymaeus
Subgenus:
Drymaeus
Species:
D. eurystomus
Binomial name
Drymaeus eurystomus
(Philippi, 1867)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Bulimus eurystomus Philippi, 1867
  • Bulimus hamadryas Philippi, 1867

Fulton (1905)[3] was the first to realize that Bulimus eurystomus Philippi, 1867 and Bulimus hamadryas Philippi, 1867 are synonyms and only differ in colour pattern.[2]

Distribution

References

This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference [2]

  1. Philippi R. A. (1867). "Descriptio brevis molluscorum quaroundam terrestrium a clarissimo viro Antonio Raimondi in Peruvia". Malakozoologische Blätter 14: 65-76. page 68.
  2. Breure A. S. H. & Mogollón Avila V. (2010). "Well-known and little-known: miscellaneous notes on Peruvian Orthalicidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Zoologische Mededelingen 84. HTM Archived 2018-09-26 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. Fulton H. C. (1905). "On Drymaeus euryostomus Phil. and hamadryas Phil". Journal of Malacology 12: 21.


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