Biology:Metastoma roemeri

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Short description: Species of mollusc


Metastoma
Scientific classification
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Animalia
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Genus:
Metastoma

Strebel, 1880
Species:
M. roemeri
Binomial name
Metastoma roemeri
Pfeiffer, 1848
Synonyms
  • Cylindrella roemeri L. Pfeiffer, 1848
  • Holospira roemeri brevissima Pilsbry, 1950
  • Holospira roemeri var. minor Sterki, 1892 (nomen nudum)
  • Holospira roemeri var. minor Cockerell, 1898

Metastoma is a monotypic genus of land snail in the family Holospiridae.[1]

M. roemeri, the single species of the genus, can be found in arid habitats in the United States (New Mexico and Texas ) and Mexico (Coahuila and Chihuahua).[2]

References

  1. MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Metastoma roemeri (L. Pfeiffer, 1848). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1064294 on 2019-12-05
  2. Thompson, Fred G.; Mihalcik, Elizabeth (2011). "Land snails of the family Holospiridae from Northern Mexico: Coelostemma and Metastoma (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Orthalicoidea)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 140 (2): 245–263. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/140/245-263. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272205136. 
  • Pfeiffer, L. (1848). Monographia heliceorum viventium. Sistens descriptiones systematicas et criticas omnium huius familiae generum et specierum hodie cognitarum. 2 (1): 1-160 (1848, before September); 2 (2): 161-594 (1848); Lipsiae (Brockhaus).
  • Pilsbry, H.A. (1950). Notes on land snails of Texas. The Nautilus, 64(2): 56–58, plate 4. page(s): 56, pl. 4, figs. 1-2
  • Sterki, V. (1892). Preliminary list of North American Pupidae (north of Mexico). The Nautilus, 6(1): 2–8. * Cockerell, T.D.A. (1898). Notes on some Pupidae. The Nautilus, 11(12): 136. page(s): 136

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