Cleopatra bulimoides

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Cleopatra bulimoides
Shell of Cleopatra bulimoides (syntype at MNHN, Paris)

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:
Cerithioidea
Family:
Paludomidae
Subfamily:
Cleopatrinae
Genus:
Cleopatra
Species:
C. bulimoides
Binomial name
Cleopatra bulimoides
(Olivier, 1804)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cleopatra pauli Bourguignat, 1885
  • Cleopatra pirothi Jickeli, 1881 (junior synonym)
  • Cyclostoma bulimoides Olivier, 1804
  • Paludina senegalensis Morelet, 1860 (junior synonym)

Cleopatra bulimoides is a

molluscs in the family Paludomidae
.

Cleopatra bulimoides is the type species of the genus Cleopatra.[2]

The holotype was found inside a mummy of an ibis (Alexandria channel, Egypt)

Varieties
  • Cleopatra bulimoides var. richardi Germain, 1911
  • Cleopatra bulimoides var. welwitschi E. von Martens, 1897
  • Cleopatra bulimoides var. nsendweensis Dupuis & Putzeys, 1902: synonym of Cleopatra nsendweensis (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1902) (basionym)

Distribution

This species occurs in:

Ecology

Parasites of Cleopatra bulimoides include the trematode Aspidogaster conchicola.[3]

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T175131A151146231.en
    . Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5
    .
  3. PMID 25781098
    .
  • Bourguignat, J.-R. (1885). Mollusques recueillis par M. Paul Soleillet dans son voyage au Choa (Éthiopie méridionale), 1-48, 1 pl. Paris (Mme Ve Tremblay)
  • Brown, D. S. (1980). Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance. Taylor & Francis, London. 1-487
  • Connolly, M. (1925). The non-marine Mollusca of Portuguese East Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 12 (3): 105–220, pl. 4–8. Cape Town

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