Sultana sultana is a species of snail from the genus Sultana.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Sultana sultana (Dillwyn, 1817). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1442167 on 5 March 2021
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,Linares EL, Vera ML (2012) Catálogo de los moluscos continentales de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, 360 pp. Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil,Simone LRL (2006) Land and freshwater molluscs of Brazil. EGB/Fapesp, São Paulo, 390 pp. French Guiana,Massemin D, Lamy D, Pointier J-P, Gargominy O (2009) Coquillages et escargots de Guyane. Seashells and snails from French Guiana. Biotope, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, 456 pp. and Suriname.Altena CO van Regteren (1975) Land Gastropoda of Surinam, with the description of a new species of Nesopupa. Basteria 39: 29–60. 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