Cleopatra bulimoides is a species of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Paludomidae.

Cleopatra bulimoides
Shell of Cleopatra bulimoides (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
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C. bulimoides
Binomial name
Cleopatra bulimoides
(Olivier, 1804)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cleopatra pauli Bourguignat, 1885
  • Cleopatra pirothi Jickeli, 1881 (junior synonym)
  • Cyclostoma bulimoides Olivier, 1804
  • Paludina senegalensis Morelet, 1860 (junior synonym)

Cleopatra bulimoides is the type species of the genus Cleopatra.[2]

The holotype was found inside a mummy of an ibis (Alexandria channel, Egypt)

Varieties
  • Cleopatra bulimoides var. richardi Germain, 1911
  • Cleopatra bulimoides var. welwitschi E. von Martens, 1897
  • Cleopatra bulimoides var. nsendweensis Dupuis & Putzeys, 1902: synonym of Cleopatra nsendweensis (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1902) (basionym)

Distribution edit

This species occurs in:

Ecology edit

Parasites of Cleopatra bulimoides include the trematode Aspidogaster conchicola.[3]

References edit

  1. ^ a b Ghamizi, M.; Jørgensen, A.; Kristensen, T.K.; Lange, C.; Stensgaard, A.-S.; Van Damme, D. (2020). "Cleopatra bulimoides". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T175131A151146231. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T175131A151146231.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. ^ Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.
  3. ^ Alevs, Philippe V.; Vieira, Fabiano M.; Santos, Cláudia P.; Scholz, Tomáš; Luque, José L. (2015-02-12). "A Checklist of the Aspidogastrea (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) of the World". Zootaxa. 3918 (3): 339–96. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3918.3.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 25781098.
  • Bourguignat, J.-R. (1885). Mollusques recueillis par M. Paul Soleillet dans son voyage au Choa (Éthiopie méridionale), 1-48, 1 pl. Paris (Mme Ve Tremblay)
  • Brown, D. S. (1980). Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance. Taylor & Francis, London. 1-487
  • Connolly, M. (1925). The non-marine Mollusca of Portuguese East Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 12 (3): 105–220, pl. 4–8. Cape Town

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