Prestonella bowkeri is a species of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Bothriembryontidae.
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| Prestonella bowkeri shell drawing (figure 5) | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Species: | P. bowkeri
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| Prestonella bowkeri (Sowerby, 1889)
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Bulimus bowkeri | |
It was previously classified within Prestonellidae. cf.[2][3]
Prestonella bowkeri is the type species of the genus Prestonella.[1]
Distribution
editThis species is endemic to Eastern Cape,[4] South Africa.[5][1]
References
edit- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Breure B. (23 February 2008) "The extended family". Bram's Snail Site, accessed 7 April 2011.
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