Drymaeus serperastrus

Drymaeus serperastrus

Probably Drymaeus serperastrus from Uxmal, Yucatán, Mexico
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Bulimulidae
Genus:	Drymaeus
Species:	D. serperastrus
Binomial name
*Drymaeus serperastrus* (Say, 1829)^[1]
Synonyms^[2]
Bulimus serperastrus Say, 1829 Bulimulus serperastrus (Say) Bulimulus serperastrus (Say) Bulimus liebmanni Pfeiffer, 1846 Bulimus paivanus Pfeiffer

Drymaeus serperastrus is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bulimulidae.

Distribution

The distribution of Drymaeus serperastrus includes the following states of Mexico: Campeche, Quintana Roo, Yucatán, Veracruz, Hidalgo and Tamaulipas.^[2]

The type locality of Drymaeus serperastrus is "on the side of the road between Vera Cruz and the City of Mexico".^[1]

The radula of Drymaeus serperastrus has 127 rows of teeth.^[3] Formula of the radula is 79-1-70.^[3]

^ ^a ^b Say T. (1829). "Descriptions of some new terrestrial and fluviatile shells of North America". New Harmony, Indiana: page 25.
^ ^a ^b Thompson F. G. (16 June 2008). "An Annotated Checklist and Bibliography of the Land and Freshwater Snails of Mexico and Central America" Archived 2012-10-12 at the Wayback Machine. "Part 3 Part 3 (Orthlicoidea)". accessed 17 May 2011.
^ ^a ^b Solem A. (1955). "Mexican mollusks collected for Dr. Bryant Walker in 1926, XI: Drymaeus". Occasional papers of the Museum of Zoology, Michigan, 31 pp., 5 plates, 1 table. page 15-16, plate 1, fig. 8; plate 2, figs. 1, 10; plate 3, fig. 2; plate 4, fig. 6. PDF.

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