| Zophos baudoni | |
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| Zophos cf. baudoni from Dominica. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Rhytidoidea |
| Family: | Haplotrematidae |
| Genus: | Zophos |
| Binomial name | |
| Zophos baudoni (Petit, 1853) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Hyalina baudoni | |
Zophos baudoni is a species of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Haplotrematidae.
Distribution
- Guadeloupe - Zophos baudoni was described by Petit de la Saussaye from Guadeloupe.
- Dominica - Robert John Lechmere Guppy (1868) expressed some doubts whether the Dominican specimens belonged to species Zophos baudoni. Ramnath & Fields (2002) were of the same opinion, considering it possibly new to science.
Ecology
Zophos baudoni lives on the rainforest floor.
It is carnivorous and it feeds on earthworms and immature Pleurodonte specimens.
References
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- ^ Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". Zoologische Mededelingen 83 http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a13
- Guppy R. J. L. (1868). "On the terrestrial mollusks of Dominica and Grenada, with an account of some new species from Trinidad". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4)1: 429-442. page 430.
- Ramnath N. & Fields A. (2002). "A survey of the land snails of four islands in the Lesser Antilles: Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenada". Abstracts Annual Meeting American Malacological Society, Charleston: 90.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Zophos baudoni | |