Pupilla tetrodus (O. Böttger, 1870 )

Rapalai, Boikhutso Lerato, 2024, An annotated checklist of molluscs recorded from Botswana, Indago: Investigating nature and humanity in Africa (Oxford, England) 41 (10), pp. 15-44 : 30

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scientific name

Pupilla tetrodus (O. Böttger, 1870 )
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54. Pupilla tetrodus (O. Böttger, 1870) View in CoL

Distribution and year: Gokwe River 1869 ( BÖttger 1870).

Geographic range: Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia.

Habitat: Terrestrial.

Notes: The species is ubiquitous across Southern Africa, occurring from semi-arid regions of the Kalahari Desert to the coastal regions of the Eastern Cape ( Herbert & Kilburn 2004).

Type locality: Gokwe River (22°S 28°E, tributary of Motloutse River), Botswana ( BÖttger 1870) GoogleMaps .

Sources: BÖttger (1870: 46, as Pupa tetrodus ); Connolly (1912: 185, as Jaminia tetrodus ; 1939: 393); van Bruggen (1966 a: 109); Herbert & Kilburn (2004: 105).

Conservation status: Not Evaluated.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

SubClass

Caenogastropoda

SuperOrder

Hygrophila

Order

Stylommatophora

Family

Pupillidae

Genus

Pupilla

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