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Prestonella bowkeri

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Species of gastropod

Prestonella bowkeri
Prestonella bowkeri shell drawing (figure 5)
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: Bothriembryontidae
Subfamily: Prestonellinae
Genus: Prestonella
Species: P. bowkeri
Binomial name
Prestonella bowkeri
(Sowerby, 1889)
Synonyms

Bulimus bowkeri

Prestonella bowkeri is a species of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Bothriembryontidae.

It was previously classified within Prestonellidae. cf.

Prestonella bowkeri is the type species of the genus Prestonella.

Distribution

This species is endemic to Eastern Cape, South Africa.

References

  1. ^ Herbert D. G. (2007). "Revision of the genus Prestonella (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Orthalicoidea: Bulimulidae s. l.), a distinctive component of the African land snail fauna". African Invertebrates 48(2): 1-19. abstract Archived 2011-09-03 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. Herbert D. G. & Mitchell A. (2008). "Phylogenetic relationships of the enigmatic land snail genus Prestonella: the missing African element in the Gondwanan superfamily Orthalicoidea (Mollusca: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 96(1): 203-221. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01109.x.
  3. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  4. Govender V. (2007). "Patterns of Distribution, Diversity and Endemism of Terrestrial Molluscs in South Africa". Thesis. School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal. 219 pp. PDF.
  5. Breure B. (23 February 2008) "The extended family". Bram's Snail Site, accessed 7 April 2011.

External links

Taxon identifiers
Prestonella bowkeri


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