Cleopatra bulimoides

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

Cleopatra bulimoides is the type species of the genus Cleopatra.

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

Varieties:

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

Distribution

This species occurs in:

• Egypt
• Benin
• Sudan
• ...

Ecology

Parasites of Cleopatra bulimoides include the trematode Aspidogaster conchicola.

References

• 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

External links

• Olivier, G.A. (1804). Voyage dans l'Empire Othoman, l'Égypte et la Perse, fair par ordre du Gouvernement, pendant les six premières années de la République. Tome second, ii pp. + 466 pp. + Errata (1 pp.); Atlas, 2d livraison: vii pp., pl. 18-32. Paris (H. Agasse)