Cleopatra bulimoides

Cleopatra bulimoides
	Shell of Cleopatra bulimoides (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Paludomidae
Genus:	Cleopatra
Species:	C. bulimoides
Binomial name
	Cleopatra bulimoides; (Olivier, 1804)
Synonyms
	Cleopatra pauli Bourguignat, 1885; Cleopatra pirothi Jickeli, 1881 (junior synonym); Cyclostoma bulimoides Olivier, 1804; Paludina senegalensis Morelet, 1860 (junior synonym);

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

Cleopatra bulimoides is the type species of the genus Cleopatra.^[2]

The holotype was found inside a mummy of an ibis (Alexandria channel, Egypt)

Cleopatra bulimoides var. richardi Germain, 1911
Cleopatra bulimoides var. welwitschi E. von Martens, 1897
Cleopatra bulimoides var. nsendweensis Dupuis & Putzeys, 1902: synonym of Cleopatra nsendweensis (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1902) (basionym)

Distribution

This species occurs in:

Parasites of Cleopatra bulimoides include the trematode Aspidogaster conchicola.^[3]

^ ^a ^b Ghamizi, M.; Jørgensen, A.; Kristensen, T.K.; Lange, C.; Stensgaard, A.-S.; Van Damme, D. (2020). "Cleopatra bulimoides". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T175131A151146231. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T175131A151146231.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
^ Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.
^ Alevs, Philippe V.; Vieira, Fabiano M.; Santos, Cláudia P.; Scholz, Tomáš; Luque, José L. (2015-02-12). "A Checklist of the Aspidogastrea (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) of the World". Zootaxa. 3918 (3): 339–96. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3918.3.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 25781098.

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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