cave invertebrates
Location: Lanao del Norte, Philippines
November 15, 2010 1:12 am
i would like to ask a help to identify these specimen. i collected these invertebrates from the cave in the Philippines. i find it hard to identify them because i have no standard taxonomic keys and other references. Please kindly help me because they are needed to be identify for my thesis. I hope for your help, as soon as possible. Thank you for your consideration.
Signature: immediately
Snails from the Philippines
Dear immediately,
We do not recognize your snails.
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Location: Philippines
I believe these tiny air-breathing land snails are a species within the family Subulinidae. I don’t know very much about tropical land snails, especially those of the Philippines, so I have no idea whether this is something really common or not.
Snails living in caves are particularly tricky. Inside a cave but reasonably near the entrance you can usually find several of the common species that live in fallen leaves and on the soil outside of the cave too, but deeper within some cave systems there is a (rare) possibility that you may come across a species that is endemic to that cave system.
Susan J. Hewitt
Guido Poppe is a well-known shell dealer and mollusk expert whose company (Conchology Inc) works out of Cebu Light Industrial Park, Mactan Island, Philippines. You might try to email a staff member in the company and see if they can recommend someone who knows the family Subulinidae who could maybe help you work out what species you found. Contact info here:
http://www.conchology.be/?t=14
best wishes,
Susan J. Hewitt