Allopeas myrmekophilos
Appearance
Allopeas myrmekophilos | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Suborder: | Achatinina |
Superfamily: | Achatinoidea |
Family: | Achatinidae |
Genus: | Allopeas |
Species: | A. myrmekophilos
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Binomial name | |
Allopeas myrmekophilos R. Janssen, 2002
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Allopeas myrmekophilos is a species of small, tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae.[1]
Distribution
[edit]Allopeas myrmekophilos lives in Malaysia.
References
[edit]- ^ Allopeas myrmekophilosR. Janssen, 2002. 29 August 2024. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- Janssen, R. & Witte, V. (2002). "Allopeas myrmekophilos n. sp., the first snail reported as living in army ant colonies (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Subulinidae)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 131 (1–2): 212.
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External links
[edit]- Witte, V., Janssen, R., Eppenstein, A. & Maschwitz, U. (2002). "Allopeas myrmekophilos (Gastropoda, Pulmonata), the first myrmecophilous mollusc living in colonies of the ponerine army ant Leptogenys distinguenda (Formicidae, Ponerinae)". Insectes Sociaux. 49: 301–305.
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