Drymaeus serperastrus

Drymaeus serperastrus
Drymaeus serperastrus
Probably Drymaeus serperastrus from Uxmal, Yucatán, Mexico
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: Orthalicidae
Genus: Drymaeus
Subgenus: Drymaeus[1]
Species: D. serperastrus
Binomial name
Drymaeus serperastrus
(Say, 1829)[2]
Synonyms[1]
  • Bulimus serperastrus Say, 1829
  • Bulimulus serperastrus (Say)
  • Bulimulus serperastrus (Say)
  • Bulimus liebmanni Pfeiffer, 1846
  • Bulimus paivanus Pfeiffer

Drymaeus serperastrus is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Orthalicidae.[1]

Distribution

The distribution of Drymaeus serperastrus includes the following states of Mexico: Campeche, Quintana Roo, Yucatán, Veracruz, Hidalgo and Tamaulipas.[1]

The type locality of Drymaeus serperastrus is "on the side of the road between Vera Cruz and the City of Mexico".[2]

Description

The radula of Drymaeus serperastrus has 127 rows of teeth.[3] Formula of the radula is 79-1-70.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Thompson F. G. (16 June 2008). "AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE LAND AND FRESHWATER SNAILS OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA". "PART 3 PART 3 (ORTHALICOIDEA)". accessed 17 May 2011.
  2. ^ a b Say T. (1829). "Descriptions of some new terrestrial and fluviatile shells of North America". New Harmony, Indiana: page 25.
  3. ^ a b Solem A. (1955). "Mexican mollusks collected for Dr. Bryant Walker in 1926, XI: Drymaeus". Occasional papers of the Museum of Zoology, Michigan, 31 pp., 5 plates, 1 table. page 15-16, plate 1, fig. 8; plate 2, figs. 1, 10; plate 3, fig. 2; plate 4, fig. 6. PDF.


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