Cleopatra ferruginea

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

Cleopatra ferruginea
shell of Cleopatra ferruginea (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
Family:	Paludomidae
Subfamily:	Cleopatrinae
Genus:	Cleopatra
Species:	C. ferruginea
Binomial name
Cleopatra ferruginea (Lea & Lea, 1850)
Synonyms
Cleopatra amaena (Morelet, 1851) (junior synonym) Cleopatra aurocincta E. von Martens, 1879 Cleopatra cameroni Bourguignat, 1879 Cleopatra dautzenbergi Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927 (junior synonym) Cleopatra kynganica Bourguignat, 1879 Cleopatra letourneuxi Bourguignat, 1879 Melania amaena Morelet, 1851 (junior synonym) Melania ferruginea I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851 (original combination) Melania zanguebarensis Petit de la Saussaye, 1851 Paludomus ferrugineus (I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851) (superseded combination)

Distribution

The holotype was found in Zanzibar.

This species is also found in Burundi, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda[1] and South Africa.[2]

Its natural habitats are intermittent rivers, swamps, and freshwater marshes.[1]

References

1. Lange C. N., Ngereza C. & Nicayenzi F. (2004). Cleopatra ferruginea. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived June 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
2. Appleton C. C., Forbes A. T.& Demetriades N. T. (2009). "The occurrence, bionomics and potential impacts of the invasive freshwater snail Tarebia granifera (Lamarck, 1822) (Gastropoda: Thiaridae) in South Africa". Zoologische Mededelingen 83. http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a04 Archived 2017-09-27 at the Wayback Machine

• 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.
• Germain, L. (1935). Contribution à l'étude de la faune du Mozambique. Voyage de M.P. Lesne (1928–29). 17e note – mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles. Memórias e Estudos do Museu Zoológico da Universidadae de Coimbra [Series1] 80: 1–72.
• Appleton, C.C. (1977). The fresh-water Mollusca of Tongaland with a note on molluscan distribution in Lake Sibaya. Annals of the Natal Museum 23(1):129-144.
• Connolly, M. (1939). A monographic survey of South African non-marine Mollusca. Annals of the South African Museum 33: 1–660
• Brown D.S. (1994). Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance, 2nd edition. London: Taylor and Francis, 607 p

External links

• Lea, I.; Lea, H. C. (1851). Description of a new genus of the family Melaniana, and of many new species of the genus Melania, chiefly collected by Hugh Cuming, Esq., during his zoological voyage in the East , and now first described. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 18: 179-197
• Pilsbry, H. A.; Bequaert, J. C. (1927). The aquatic mollusks of the Belgian Congo: with a geographical and ecological account of Congo malacology. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 53: 69-602
• Bourguignat, J.-R. (1879). Description de diverses espèces terrestres et fluviatiles et de différents genres de Mollusques de l'Égypte, de l'Abyssinie, de Zanzibar, du Sénégal et du Centre de l'Afrique. 54 pp. Paris: Jules Tremblay
• Martens, E. von. (1879). Recente Conchylien von Bagamojo. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin. 1879: 102-103
• Petit de la Saussaye, S. (1851). Description de coquilles nouvelles. Journal de Conchyliologie. 2: 259-269; pl. 7 fig. 1-4, 7-8; pl. 8 fig. 3, 5-9