Allopeas clavulinum
{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}
{{Speciesbox
| image = Allopeas Clavulinum-Caracol.01.jpg
| image_caption =Allopeas clavulinum in Indonesia
| taxon = Allopeas clavulinum
| authority = (Potiez & Michaud, 1838)
| synonyms=
- Allopeas mauritianum (L. Pfeiffer, 1853) junior subjective synonym
- Allopeas prestoni var. hawaiiense (Sykes, 1904) junior subjective synonym
- Bulimus clavulinus Potiez & Michaud, 1838 superseded combination
- Bulimus mauritianus L. Pfeiffer, 1853 superseded combination
- Lamellaxis (Allopeas) mauritianum (L. Pfeiffer, 1853) superseded combination
- Lamellaxis (Tomopeas) clavulinus (Potiez & Michaud, 1838) superseded combination
- Lamellaxis clavulinum [sic] incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet
- Lamellaxis clavulinus (Potiez & Michaud, 1838)
- Opeas clavulinum (Potiez & Michaud, 1838) superseded combination
- Opeas mauritianum (L. Pfeiffer, 1853) superseded combination
- Opeas prestoni var. hawaiiensis Sykes, 1904 superseded combination
- Stenogyra (Opeas) clavulinus (Potiez & Michaud, 1838) superseded combination
- Subulina maurtiana (L. Pfeiffer, 1853) superseded combination
}}
Allopeas clavulinum, common name the spike awlsnail,[https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=567214 "Allopeas clavulinum (Potiez and Michaud, 1838)"]. ITIS, accessed 10 October 2010. is a species of small, tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae.{{WRMS species|875197 |Allopeas clavulinum (Potiez & Michaud, 1838)|25 August 2024}}
This species is also known as Lamellaxis clavulinus.
Subspecies
- Allopeas clavulinum kyotoense (Pilsbry & Hirase, 1904) - Japan[http://shell.kwansei.ac.jp/~shell/pic_book/data40/r003983.html "Allopeas clavulinum kyotoense オカチョウジガイ"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080122081711/http://shell.kwansei.ac.jp/~shell/pic_book/data40/r003983.html |date=2008-01-22 }}. BISHOGAI Database, accessed 10 October 2010. Earlier the subspecies was regarded as a standalone species: Allopeas kyotoense (Pilsbry & Hirase, 1904){{cite web |title=Allopeas kyotoense (Pilsbry & Hirase, 1904) |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/7889924 |website=www.gbif.org |access-date=26 October 2021 |language=en}}
- Allopeas clavulinum obesispira (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1904)
- Allopeas clavulinum pyrgula (Schmacker & O. Boettger, 1891): synonym of Opeas pyrgula Schmacker & O. Boettger, 1891 (superseded combination)
Description
(Original description in Latin) The turreted shell is delicate, glassy, and translucent with a polished sheen. It features six convex whorls, with the body whorl being the largest. The oval aperture is angular at the top and left sides. The peristome is simple and sharp-edged. The shell has a blunt apex. {{cite book |last1=Potiez, V. L. V. & Michaud, A. L. G. |title=Galerie des mollusques, ou catalogue méthodique, descriptif et raisonné des mollusques et coquilles du Muséum de Douai. Tome 1, pp. xxxvi + 560 + 4 (Relevé des genres manquants; Errata). Atlas |date=1838 |publisher=Baillière |location=Paris |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10934167 |access-date=25 August 2024}} {{source-attribution}}
Distribution
The non-indigenous distribution of this species has a wide distribution in the tropics and subtropics of East Africa. It is introduced elsewhere:
- Great Britain, as a "hothouse alien".
- the Czech Republic, where it occurs as a "hothouse alien".Horsák M., Dvořák L. & Juřičková L. (2004). "Greenhouse gastropods of the Czech Republic: current stage of research". Malakológiai Tájekoztató (Malacological Newsletter) 22: 141-147. [http://www.matramuzeum.hu/e107_plugins/docrep_menu/docrep.php?0.getdoc.58.16. PDF] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071025235605/http://www.matramuzeum.hu/e107_plugins/docrep_menu/docrep.php?0.getdoc.58.16. |date=2007-10-25 }}.
- India
- Australia[http://www.ento.csiro.au/aicn/name_s/b_2223.htm "Lamellaxis clavulinus (Potiez & Michaud)"]. accessed 11 October 2010.
- Philippines
References
{{Reflist}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Brook |first1=F.J. |title=Coastal landsnail fauna of Rarotonga, Cook Islands: systematics, diversity, biogeography, faunal history, and environmental influences. |journal=Tuhinga |date=2010 |volume=21 |pages=161–252}}
- {{cite book |last1=Gerlach |first1=J. |title=Terrestrial and freshwater Mollusca of the Seychelles islands. |date=2006 |pages=1–141}}
- {{cite book |last1=Griffiths, O.L. & Florens, V.F.B. |title=A field guide to the non-marine molluscs of the Mascarene Islands (Mauritius, Rodrigues and Réunion) and the northern dependencies of Mauritius |date=2006 |publisher=Bioculture Press |location=Mauritius |pages=1–185}}
External links
- {{cite book |last1=Pfeiffer |first1=L |title=Die Gattungen Bulimus, Partula, Achatinella, Achatina und Azeca. In Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. In: Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz, Ersten Bandes, dreizehnte Abtheilung, erster Theil. |date=1853–1865 |publisher=Bauer & Raspe |location=Nürnberg |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34228153}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Sykes |first1=E.R. |title=The Hawaiian species of Opeas |journal=Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London |date=1904 |volume=6 |pages=112–113 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15176229}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Espinosa, J. A. & Robinson, D. G. |title=Annotated checklist of the terrestrial mollusks (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Hispaniola Island. |journal=Novitates Caribaea |date=2021 |volume=17 |issue=17 |pages=71–146 |doi=10.33800/nc.vi17.250 |url=http://www.novitatescaribaea.do/index.php/novitates/article/view/250|doi-access=free }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Marzuki, M. E. bin, Liew, T. S. [Thor-Seng] & Mohd-Azlan, J. |title=Land snails and slugs of Bau limestone hills, Sarawak (Malaysia, Borneo), with the descriptions of 13 new species. |journal=ZooKeys |date=2021 |issue=1035 |pages=1–113 |doi=10.3897/zookeys.1035.60843 |doi-access=free |pmid=33958931 |url=https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/60843/|pmc=8096804 }}
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