Sultana sultana

Sultana sultana is a species of snail from the genus Sultana.

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

Description

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

Habitat and range

This species occurs widely across South America, findings have been documented in Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, French Guiana, and Suriname. Recent observations through citizen science apps, confirm these documented recordings.

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

References

• 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