Tomostele musaecola
Species of gastropod
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Tomostele musaecola is a species of small air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Streptaxidae.[2]
| Tomostele musaecola | |
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| A shell of Tomostele musaecola. The height of the shell is 8.71 mm. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Streptaxidae |
| Genus: | Tomostele |
| Species: | T. musaecola |
| Binomial name | |
| Tomostele musaecola (Morelet, 1860) | |
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Distribution
The indigenous distribution of Tomostele musaecola includes:
This West African species has been widely reported from the Neotropics as Luntia insignis (E. A. Smith, 1898).[1]
The non-indigenous distribution of Tomostele musaecola includes:
Ecology
This species is molluscivorous (it eats other mollusks), and its effect on the native malacofauna of Dominica is as yet undocumented.[1]
