Laevicaulis alte (Ferussac, 1822)

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 : 31

62. Laevicaulis alte (A. Férussac, 1822)

Distribution and year: Francistown 2018, 2019 ( GBIF 2023 b).

Geographic range: Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Habitat: Terrestrial.

Notes: The species is widely distributed across Southern Africa, occurring in several types of habitats such as the savanna and the equatorial forest (van Bruggen & Appleton 1977), unknown to occur at very high altitudes, and has been introduced in several parts of the world ( Herbert & Kilburn 2004). The species is known as an intermediate host of larval nematode parasites affecting vertebrates ( Mahajan et al. 1992).

Type locality: Pondicherry, India ( Férussac 1822) .

Source: GBIF (2023 b).

Conservation status: Not Evaluated.