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Otala lactea
Authors/Creators
- 1. Laboratorio de Invertebrados Acuáticos, Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Ñuñoa, Chile; & Laboratorio de Química Inorgánica, Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Ñuñoa, Chile
Description
Otala lactea (Müller, 1774)
Description
Abbott (1989).
Distribution
Native to countries bordering the western Mediterranean Sea (Iberian Peninsula and northwest Africa) (Herbert and Sirgel 2001). The first and only record for Chile did not give precise data (Rumi et al. 2010).
Possible mechanism of introduction/Status
Human transportation/unestablished.
Remarks
Generalist herbivore, possibly invasive, garden and horticultural pest (La Pierre et al. 2010). UA. I.
Notes
Published as part of Araya, Juan Francisco, 2015, Current status of the non-indigenous molluscs in Chile, with the first record of Otala punctata (Müller, 1774) (Gastropoda: Helicidae) in the country and new records for Cornu aspersum (Müller, 1774) and Deroceras laeve (Müller, 1774), pp. 1731-1761 in Journal of Natural History 49 (29) on pages 1746-1747, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1006703, http://zenodo.org/record/3997965
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Muller
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Stylommatophora
- Family
- Helicidae
- Genus
- Otala
- Species
- lactea
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Otala lactea (Muller, 1774) sec. Araya, 2015
References
- Muller OF. 1774. Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. Vol. II, Havniae et Lipsiae, Heineck et Faber; xxxvi + 214 + 2 + 8 pp.
- Abbott RT. 1989. Compendium of landshells. Melbourne: American Malacologists.
- Herbert DG, Sirgel WF. 2001. The recent introduction of two potentially pestiferous alien snails into South Africa and the outcomes of different pest management practices: an eradication and a colonization: research in action. S Afr J Sci. 97: 301 - 304.
- Rumi A, Sanchez J, Ferrando NS. 2010. Theba pisana (Muller, 1774) (Gastropoda, Helicidae) and other alien land molluscs species in Argentina. Biol Invasions. 12: 2985 - 2990.
- La Pierre KJ, Harpole WS, Suding KN. 2010. Strong feeding preference of an exotic generalist herbivore for an exotic forb: a case of invasional antagonism. Biol Invasions. 12: 3025 - 3031.