Pleurodonte guadeloupensis
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| Pleurodonte guadeloupensis | |
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| Pleurodonte guadeloupensis dominicana | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Pleurodontidae |
| Genus: | Pleurodonte |
| Species: | P. guadeloupensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Pleurodonte guadeloupensis (Pilsbry, 1889) | |
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Pleurodonte guadeloupensis is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Pleurodontidae.[2] It occurs in the Lesser Antilles (the Caribbean).[3]
There are four subspecies:[2]
- Pleurodonte guadeloupensis dominicana Pilsbry & Cockerell, 1937 – endemic to Dominica[1][3]
- Pleurodonte guadeloupensis guadeloupensis (Pilsbry, 1889) – Guadeloupe[3]
- Pleurodonte guadeloupensis martinensis Hovestadt & Neckheim, 2020 – endemic to Saint Martin[3]
- Pleurodonte guadeloupensis roseolabrum (M. Smith, 1911) – Martinique[3]
Description
This is the smallest Pleurodonte species on Dominica. It has a velvety periostracum on the shell surface.[1]
