''Striosubulina striatella'' is a

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

of small air-breathing land snail, a

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pulmonate gastropod

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in the family

Achatinidae Achatinidae (New Latin, from Greek "''agate''") is a family of medium to large sized tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks from Africa. Well known species include ''Achatina achatina'' the Giant African Snail, and ''Liss ...

Distribution

This species is native to tropical

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. It is introduced in the

Mascarene Islands The Mascarene Islands (, ) or Mascarenes or Mascarenhas Archipelago is a group of islands in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar consisting of the islands belonging to the Republic of Mauritius as well as the French department of Réunion. Their ...

: ( Réunion,

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, Rodrigues).Griffiths Owen.L. & Florens Vincent F.B., ''Non-Marine Molluscs of the Mascarene Islands'', Bioculture Press, Mauritius 2006,

References

* Rowson, B., Warren, B.H. & Ngereza, C.F. (2010). Terrestrial molluscs of Pemba Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania, and its status as an “oceanic” island. ZooKeys 70: 1–39. Subulininae Gastropods described in 1831 {{Achatinidae-stub