Tomostele musaecola is a species of small air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Tomostele musaecola (Morelet, 1860). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1446758 on 2022-06-30
Distribution The indigenous distribution of Tomostele musaecola includes: West Africa
This West African species has been widely reported from the Neotropics as Luntia insignis (E. A. Smith, 1898).
The non-indigenous distribution of Tomostele musaecola includes: Australia Melanesia and Polynesia throughout the Caribbean Basin. It was reported as Streptostele musaecola from various Caribbean localities by Hausdorf & Medina Bermúdez (2003).Hausdorf B. & Medina Bermúdez C. I. (2003). "Luntia insignis Smith, 1898, is a synonym of Streptostele (Tomostele) musaecola (Morelet, 1860) (Gastropoda, Streptaxidae) - an African tramp and its distribution in America". Malacologia 45: 185-187, figs 1-4. Dominica - introduced. First reported in 2009.
Ecology This species is molluscivorous (it eats other mollusks), and its effect on the native malacofauna of Dominica is as yet undocumented.
References This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference.Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". Zoologische Mededelingen 83 http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a13
Holyoak, D. T.; Holyoak, G. A.; Lima, R. F. D.; Panisi, M.; Sinclair, F. (2020). A checklist of the land Mollusca (Gastropoda) of the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, with new records and descriptions of new taxa. Iberus: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Malacología, (Iberus).38(2): 219-319
External links Morelet, A. (1860). Descriptions de nouvelles espèces de l'Afrique occidentale, rapportées par M. le capitaine Vignon. Journal de conchyliologie. 8 (2): 189-191. Smith, E. A. (1898). On some land shells from Trinidad. Journal of Conchology. 9: 27–29 Espinosa, J. A. & Robinson, D. G. (2021). Annotated checklist of the terrestrial mollusks (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Hispaniola Island. Novitates Caribaea. 17: 71–146