Sultana sultana

Short description: Species of gastropod

Sultana sultana

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Heterobranchia
Order:  | Stylommatophora
Superfamily:  | Orthalicoidea
Family:  | Orthalicidae
Genus:  | Sultana
Species:  |

S. sultana

Binomial name
Sultana sultana

(Dillwyn, 1817)

Synonyms

* Helix sultana Dillwyn, 1817 (basionym)
* Orthalicus sultana (Dillwyn, 1817) (unaccepted combination)
* Orthalicus sultana angustior Preston, 1914 (junior synonym)
* Orthalicus trullisatus Shuttleworth, 1856 (junior synonym)
* Sultana sultana angustior (Preston, 1914) (superseded subspecific combination)
* Sultana sultana sultana (Dillwyn, 1817) (superseded subspecific combination)

Sultana sultana is a species from the genus Sultana.[1][2]

This species was first described by Lewis Weston Dillwyn in 1817.[3]

## Contents

* 1 Description
* 2 Habitat and range
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Description

Sultana sultana is a land snail. It has a shell height of 87.4 and a diameter 54.5 mm.[4][5]

## Habitat and range

This species occurs widely across South America, findings have been documented in Panama,[4] Colombia,[4][6] Ecuador,[4] Peru,[4] Bolivia,[4] Brazil ,[4][7] French Guiana,[4][8] and Suriname.[4][9] Recent observations through citizen science apps, confirm these documented recordings.[1][3]

It has an habitat at low altitude and in moist forests.[4]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Sultana sultana" (in en). https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/559220-Sultana-sultana.
2. ↑ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Sultana sultana (Dillwyn, 1817). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1442167 on 2021-03-05
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Registry-Migration.Gbif.Org (2019) (in en), GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, GBIF Secretariat, doi:10.15468/39omei, https://www.gbif.org/dataset/d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c, retrieved 2021-02-27
4. ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 , Wikidata Q24200380
5. ↑ Neubert, Eike; Gosteli, Margret (2003). The molluscan species described by Robert James Shuttleworth. Naturhistorisches Museum Bern. OCLC 80225611. http://worldcat.org/oclc/80225611.
6. ↑ Linares EL, Vera ML (2012) Catálogo de los moluscos continentales de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, 360 pp.
7. ↑ Simone LRL (2006) Land and freshwater molluscs of Brazil. EGB/Fapesp, São Paulo, 390 pp.
8. ↑ Massemin D, Lamy D, Pointier J-P, Gargominy O (2009) Coquillages et escargots de Guyane. Seashells and snails from French Guiana. Biotope, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, 456 pp.
9. ↑ Altena CO van Regteren (1975) Land Gastropoda of Surinam, with the description of a new species of Nesopupa. Basteria 39: 29–60.

* Massemin D., Lamy D., Pointier J.P. & Gargominy O. (2009). Coquillages et escargots de Guyane. Mèze: Biotope. 456 pp.

## External links

* Dillwyn L.W. (1817). A descriptive catalogue of Recent shells, arranged according to the Linnean method; with particular attention to the synonymy. London: John and Arthur Arch. Vol. 1: 1-580; Vol. 2: 581-1092 + index
* Shuttleworth, R. J. (1856). Beiträge zur näheren Kenntniss der Mollusken. Notitiae Malacologicae. 1: 1-90, pls 1–9.
* Preston, H.B. (1914). New non-marine Mollusca from Peru and Argentina. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (8) 13 (77): 522-528. London.
* Breure, A. S. H. & Mogollón Avila, V. (2016). Synopsis of Central Andean orthalicoid land snails (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora), excluding Bulimulidae. ZooKeys. 588: 1-199

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