Subulina octona

Not to be confused with Octonauts.

Subulina octona
Five live individuals of Subulina octona on a wet washcloth. Nevis, West Indies. The yellow coloration is due to the soft parts showing through the transparent and colorless shell.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Achatinina
Superfamily:	Achatinoidea
Family:	Achatinidae
Genus:	Subulina
Species:	S. octona
Binomial name
Subulina octona (Bruguière, 1789)

Subulina octona is a species of small, tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae.[1]

A shell of Subulina octona from Bermuda. The shell is transparent and colorless at first, but after death it rapidly becomes opaque.

Distribution

The native distribution of this species includes:

• Caribbean
• Cuba[2]
• Venezuela[3][4][5][6][7]

This species has been introduced to and become established in:

• Tanzania[8]
• Dominica[9]
• Czech Republic as a "hothouse alien"[10]
• Great Britain as a "hothouse alien"
• Pratas Island, Taiwan[11]
• and other areas

Parasites

Subulina octona serves as an intermediate host for:

• Postharmostomum gallinum[10]
• Angiostrongylus cantonensis[10]
• Platynosomum illiciens (syn.: P. fastosum)[12]

See also

• List of introduced molluscs species of Venezuela
• List of molluscs of Falcón state, Venezuela
• List of non-marine molluscs of El Hatillo Municipality, Miranda, Venezuela

References

1. Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 10 January 2019.
2. "Mollusca" Archived 2012-06-26 at the Wayback Machine. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
3. Baker Horace B (1927). "The mollusca collected by the University of Michigan – Williamson expedition in Venezuela". Occasional Paper of Museum of Zoology. 210: 1–51. hdl:2027.42/56621.
4. Richards H. G. & Hummelinck P. W. (1940). "Land & Freshwater Mollusks from Margarita Island, Venezuela". Notulae Naturae 62 1-16. ISBN 160483062X
5. Hass Fritz (1962). "Caribbean land molluscs Subulinidae and Oleacinidae". Studies on the Fauna Od Curaçao and Other Caribbean Island. XIII (52): 49–60.
6. Martínez E, Rafael y Miranda A, Rafael E. (1968) "Aspectos de la reproducción en moluscos pulmonados del área metropolitana de Caracas" in Estudio de Caracas. Ecología vegetal - fauna Vol:II pp. 123-165. Universidad Central de Venezuela. Caracas-Venezuela
7. Ojasti, Juhani., González Jiménez, Eduardo, Szeplaki Otahola, Eduardo. y García Román, Luis B. (2001) Informe sobre las especies exótica en Venezuela. Ministerio del Ambiente y de los Recursos Naturales Caracas. ISBN 980-04-1254-9
8. Rowson B.; Warren B. H. & Ngereza C. F. (2010). "Terrestrial molluscs of Pemba Island, Zanzibar, India, Tanzania, and its status as an "oceanic" island". ZooKeys (70): 1–39. doi:10.3897/zookeys.70.762. PMC 3088446. PMID 21594041..
9. Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". Zoologische Mededelingen 83
10. Juřičková, Lucie (2006-01-30). "Subulina octona (Bruguière, 1798) – a new greenhouse species for the Czech Republic (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Subulinidae)". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca. 5: 1–2. doi:10.5817/MaB2006-5-1. ISSN 1336-6939.
11. Wu S.-P.; Hwang C.-C.; Huang H.-M.; Chang H.-W.; Lin Y.-S. & Lee P.-F. (2007). "Land Molluscan Fauna of the Dongsha Island with Twenty New Recorded Species" (PDF). Taiwania. 52 (2): 145–151.
12. Pinto, Hudson A.; Mati, Vitor LT. & de Melo, Alan L. (2014). "New insights into the life cycle of Platynosomum (Trematoda: Dicrocoeliidae)". Parasitology Research. 113 (7): 2701–2707. doi:10.1007/s00436-014-3926-5. PMID 24802870.

Further reading

• De Almeida Bessa E. C.; De Barros Araujo J. L. (1996). "Ocorrencia de autofecundacao em Subulina octona (Bruguiere) (Pulmonata, Subulinidae) sob condicoes de laboratorio" [Occurrence of self-fertilization in Subulina octona (Bruguiere) (Pulmonata, Subulinidae) under laboratorial conditions]. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia. 12 (3): 719–723. doi:10.1590/s0101-81751995000300025.
• Pinto Hudson A.; Mati Vitor LT; de Melo Alan L. (2014). "New insights into the life cycle of Platynosomum (Trematoda: Dicrocoeliidae)". Parasitology Research. 113 (7): 2701–2707. doi:10.1007/s00436-014-3926-5. PMID 24802870.