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

Drymaeus serperastrus
Probably Drymaeus serperastrus from Uxmal, Yucatán, Mexico
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Bulimulidae
Genus: Drymaeus
Species:
D. serperastrus
Binomial name
Drymaeus serperastrus
(Say, 1829)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Bulimus serperastrus Say, 1829
  • Bulimulus serperastrus (Say)
  • Bulimulus serperastrus (Say)
  • Bulimus liebmanni Pfeiffer, 1846
  • Bulimus paivanus Pfeiffer

Distribution

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The distribution of Drymaeus serperastrus includes the following states of Mexico: Campeche, Quintana Roo, Yucatán, Veracruz, Hidalgo and Tamaulipas.[2]

The type locality of Drymaeus serperastrus is "on the side of the road between Vera Cruz and the City of Mexico".[1]

Description

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

References

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  1. ^ a b Say T. (1829). "Descriptions of some new terrestrial and fluviatile shells of North America". New Harmony, Indiana: page 25.
  2. ^ a b Thompson F. G. (16 June 2008). "An Annotated Checklist and Bibliography of the Land and Freshwater Snails of Mexico and Central America" Archived 2012-10-12 at the Wayback Machine. "Part 3 Part 3 (Orthlicoidea)". accessed 17 May 2011.
  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.