Drymaeus serperastrus
| Drymaeus serperastrus | |
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| Probably Drymaeus serperastrus from Uxmal, Yucatán, Mexico | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Orthalicoidea |
| Family: | Bulimulidae |
| Subfamily: | Peltellinae |
| Genus: | Drymaeus |
| Subgenus: | Drymaeus[1] |
| Species: | D. serperastrus |
| Binomial name | |
| Drymaeus serperastrus (Say, 1829)[2] | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Drymaeus serperastrus is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bulimulidae.
Distribution
The distribution of Drymaeus serperastrus includes the following states of Mexico: Campeche, Quintana Roo, Yucatán, Veracruz, Hidalgo and Tamaulipas.[1]
The type locality of Drymaeus serperastrus is "on the side of the road between Vera Cruz and the City of Mexico".[2]
Description
The radula of Drymaeus serperastrus has 127 rows of teeth.[3] Formula of the radula is 79-1-70.[3]
References
- 1 2 3 Thompson F. G. (16 June 2008). "An Annotated Checklist and Bibliography of the Land and Freshwater Snails of Mexico and Central America". "Part 3 Part 3 (Orthlicoidea)". accessed 17 May 2011.
- 1 2 Say T. (1829). "Descriptions of some new terrestrial and fluviatile shells of North America". New Harmony, Indiana: page 25.
- 1 2 Solem A. (1955). "Mexican mollusks collected for Dr. Bryant Walker in 1926, XI: Drymaeus". Occasional papers of the Museum of Zoology, Michigan, 31 pp., 5 plates, 1 table. page 15-16, plate 1, fig. 8; plate 2, figs. 1, 10; plate 3, fig. 2; plate 4, fig. 6. PDF.
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