Laevicaulis alte
Authors/Creators
- 1. Botswana National Museum, 331 Independence Avenue, Gaborone, Botswana School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Perth, WA, Australia
Description
62. Laevicaulis alte (A. Férussac, 1822)
Distribution and year: Francistown 2018, 2019 (GBIF 2023 b).
Geographic range: Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Habitat: Terrestrial.
Notes: The species is widely distributed across Southern Africa, occurring in several types of habitats such as the savanna and the equatorial forest (van Bruggen & Appleton 1977), unknown to occur at very high altitudes, and has been introduced in several parts of the world (Herbert & Kilburn 2004). The species is known as an intermediate host of larval nematode parasites affecting vertebrates (Mahajan et al. 1992).
Type locality: Pondicherry, India (Férussac 1822).
Source: GBIF (2023 b).
Conservation status: Not Evaluated.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Ferussac
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Systellommatophora
- Family
- Veronicellidae
- Genus
- Laevicaulis
- Species
- alte
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Laevicaulis alte (Ferussac, 1822) sec. Rapalai, 2024
References
- FERUSSAC, A. E. J. P. F., D'AUDEBARD, DE. 1822. Tableaux systematiques des animaux mollusques classes en familles naturelles, dans lesquels on a etabli la concordance de tous les systemes; suivis d'un Prodrome general pour tous les mollusques ou fluviatiles, vivantes ou fossiles. Paris: A. Bertrand. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11057234
- GBIF. 2023 b. Occurrence download. The Global Biodiversity Information Facility. https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/download/0257952-
- VAN BRUGGEN, A. C. & APPLETON, C. C. 1977. Studies on the ecology and systematics of the terrestrial molluscs of the Lake Sibaya area of Zululand, South Africa. Zoologische Verhandelingen 154 (1): 1-44. https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/317725
- HERBERT, D. & KILBURN, D. 2004. Field guide to the land snails and slugs of eastern South Africa. Pietermaritzburg: Natal Museum.
- MAHAJAN, R. K., ALMEIDA, A. J., SENGUPTA, S. R. & RENAPURKAR, D. M. 1992. Seasonal intensity of Angiostrongylus cantonensis in the intermediate host, Laevicaulis alte. International Journal of Parasitology 22 (5): 669-671. https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-7519(92)90017-F