Overview
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Critically Endangered |
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Description
Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial
Ecology: The type
specimen was collected from "mountain forest
" (Sykes 1909). The rediscovered specimen was collected from leaf litter
in a relict
fragment of primary forest
(Gerlach 2002). It is thought that the species is restricted
to primary forest habitat
.[1]
List of Habitats:1.6Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Protostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Lophotrochozoa
()
- Superphylum:
Eutrochozoa
()
- Phylum:
Mollusca
()
- (Linnaeus, 1758) Cuvier, 1795
- Molluscs
- Class:
Gastropoda
()
- Cuvier, 1795
- Snails and Slugs
- Subclass:
Orthogastropoda
()
- Ponder & Lindberg, 1996
- Superorder:
Heterobranchia
()
- J.e. Gray, 1840
- Order:
Stylommatophora
()
- Cuvier, in Blainville, 1814
- Suborder:
Eupulmonata
()
- (Haszprunar & Huber, 1990)
- Infraorder:
Stylommatophora
()
- A. Schmidt, 1855
- Superfamily:
Streptaxoidea
()
- Gray, 1860
- Family:
Streptaxidae
()
-
- Genus:
Gulella
()
- Griffiths, 2000
- Specific name:
thomasseti
- Scientific name: - Gulella thomasseti (Sykes, 1909)
- Specific name:
thomasseti
- Genus:
Gulella
(
- Family:
Streptaxidae
(
- Superfamily:
Streptaxoidea
(
- Infraorder:
Stylommatophora
(
- Suborder:
Eupulmonata
(
- Order:
Stylommatophora
(
- Superorder:
Heterobranchia
(
- Subclass:
Orthogastropoda
(
- Class:
Gastropoda
(
- Phylum:
Mollusca
(
- Superphylum:
Eutrochozoa
(
- Infrakingdom:
Lophotrochozoa
(
- Branch:
Protostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Gulella
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 62 species and subspecies in this genus:
G. alleni · G. amaniensis · G. amboniensis · G. antelmeana · G. aprosdoketa · G. bicolor · G. bomolensis · G. cavidens · G. claustralis · G. conicodentata · G. connollyi · G. conradti · G. conradti reductidentata · G. contingens · G. cuspidata · G. delthiopica · G. farquhari · G. foliifera · G. gouldi · G. gouldi globulosa · G. greenwayi · G. grossa · G. gwendolinae · G. gwendolinae aldabrae · G. gwendolinae mkusiensis · G. himerothales · G. inconspicua · G. infrendens · G. intrusa · G. leakeyi · G. leucocion · G. linguifera · G. lornae · G. lornae lornae · G. lornae major · G. ludwigi · G. mayottensis · G. mediafricana · G. minuta · G. montana · G. ndamanyiluensis · G. obovata ampullacea · G. paucidens · G. percivali kilimae · G. plantii (Plant's Gulella Snail) · G. ponsonbyi · G. puzeyi · G. rutschuruensis · G. salpinx · G. subhyalina addita · G. subsellae · G. taitensis · G. tharfieldensis leppani · G. thomasseti · G. translucida · G. triplicina · G. unidentata · G. usagarica · G. usagarica msambaa · G. usagarica satura · G. usambarica · G. wahlbergi
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Further Reading
- Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
- Gerlach, J. 2002. The rediscovery of 'Gulella' thomasseti. Colophon: Newsletter of the Southern African Invertebrates Specialist Group No. 3. September 2002.
- Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
- IUCN. 2003. 2003 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 18 November 2003.
- Sykes, E.R. 1909. The land and freshwater Mollusca of the Seychelles archipelago. Transcripts of the Linnaeus Society London (Zoology) 13: 57-64.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 31, 2006.
- Gerlach, J. 2003. Gulella thomasseti. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
- Gerlach, J. 2003. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 8557792
- IUCN ID: 9533
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 5667
Footnotes
- Gerlach, J. 2003. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008. [back]
