Philomycus carolinensis

• Interesting Facts
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,665 meters (0 to 15,305 feet).[1]

Taxonomy

Similar Species

Members of the genus Philomycus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 8 species and subspecies in this genus:

P. batchi (Dusky Mantleslug) · P. bisdosus (Grayfoot Mantleslug) · P. carolinianus (Carolina Mantleslug) · P. flexuolaris (Winding Mantleslug) · P. sellatus (Alabama Mantleslug) · P. togatus (Toga Mantleslug) · P. venustus (Brown-Spotted Mantleslug) · P. virginicus (Virginia Mantleslug)

More Info

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Further Reading

• A biological survey of the sand dune region on the south shore of Saginaw Bay, Michigan. Prepared under the direction of Alexander G. Ruthven. Lansing, Mich.: Wynkoop, Hallenbeck, Crawford co., state printers, 1911. url p. 149, p. 157, p. 336.
• A naturalist in the Great Lakes region, by Elliot Rowland Downing. .. Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago Press[c1922] url , , , p. 216, p. 218, p. 325.
• Agriculture of Maine: . .. annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Maine. Augusta: [State of Maine, Dept. of Agriculture, 1903-1940.] url p. 259.
• An ecological study of prairie and forest invertebrates / by Charles C. Adams. Urbana, Ill.: Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, 1915. url p. 202, p. 276, p. 61.
• An illustrated catalogue of the mollusca of Michigan / Lansing: Michigan Geological Survey, 1906- url p. 432, p. 434.
• Animal communities in temperate America: as illustrated in the Chicago region; a study in animal ecology / by Victor E. Shelford. .. Chicago, Ill.: Published for the Geographic Society of Chicago by the University of Chicago Press, [c1937] url p. 206, p. 241, p. 243, p. 247, p. 254.
• Annual report / Albany: University of the State of New York, 1902-1918. url p. 133.
• Annual reports / Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, [1841-1922] url p. 61.
• Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History. Bloomington, Ill.: The Laboratory, 1876-1918. url p. 121, p. 136, p. 136, p. 202, p. 202, p. 204, p. 204, p. 205, p. 221, p. 221, p. 228, p. 236, p. 276, p. 276, p. 480, p. 495, p. 495.
• Catalog of Mollusca of South Carolina / by William Gaillard Mazÿck. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1913. url p. 5.
• Catalogue of Pulmonata or air-breathing Mollusca, in the collection of the British Museum; pt. 1. LondonPrinted by order of the Trustees1855 url p. 158.
• Catalogue of scientific papers (1800-1900) Comp. by the Royal society of London. Cambridge, C. J. Clay and sons, 1867-1902; url p. 143.
• Catalogue of scientific papers, 1800-1900. CambridgeUniversity Press1908-14 url p. 143.
• Check list of the Mollusca of New York / Elizabeth J. Letson. Albany: New York State Education Dept., 1905. url p. 47, p. 48.
• Fauna hawaiiensis; Cambridge, Eng., The University press, 1913. url p. 400.
• Fauna hawaiiensis; being the land-fauna of the Hawaiian islands. by various authors, 1899-1913. Cambridge [Eng.]: The University press, 1913. url p. 402.
• Fauna of New England. Boston, Printed for the [Boston] Society [of Natural History] from the Gurdon Saltonstall Fund, 1904-25. url p. 206.
• Fauna of New England: 13. List of the mollusca / by Charles W. Johnson. Boston: Boston Society of Natural History, 1915. url p. 206.
• Figures of molluscous animals, selected from various authors. Etched for the use of students by Maria Emma Gray. .. London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1859. url p. 112.
• Hand list of Mollusca in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Calcutta, Printed by order of Trustees, 1878- url p. 65.
• Mollusca, by E.R. Sykes with intercalations on anatomy by Lt.-Col. Godwin-Austen. [CambridgeUniversity Press]1900. url p. 402.
• New York State Museum bulletin. 1905 Albany, N.Y.: University of the State of New York, 1916-1944. url p. 47, p. 48.
• Occasional papers of the Boston Society of Natural History. Boston, Boston Society of Natural History, 1869-1941. url p. 206.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url , p. 22, p. 22, p. 421, p. 437, p. 489, p. 489, p. 489, p. 533, p. 533, p. 612, p. 612, p. 861, p. 861.
• Researches on Fungi. .. by A. H. Reginald Buller. .. London, New York [etc.]: Longmans, Green and co., 1909- url p. 221, p. 483, p. 483.
• Shells of Maine. A catalogue of the land, fresh-water and marine Mollusca of Maine, by Norman Wallace Lermond. Thomaston, Me., pref. 1908 url p. 43.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 8 1869 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 298.
• Textbook of zoology / by George Edwin Potter. St. Louis: Mosby, 1947. url p. 940.
• The Biological bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, url p. 92.
• The Canadian field-naturalist. 54 1940 Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. url p. 43.
• The Mollusca of the Chicago area, by Frank Collins Baker. .. [Chicago?]1898-1902. url , , p. 201, p. 202.
• The Nautilus. Melbourne, Fla., etc., American Malacologists, inc., etc. url p. 106, p. 106, p. 106, p. 106, p. 114, p. 122, p. 122, p. 137, p. 140, p. 140, p. 142, p. 142, p. 142, p. 15, p. 15, p. 19, p. 24, p. 24, p. 28, p. 28, p. 52, p. 64, p. 64, p. 65, p. 65, p. 66, p. 66, p. 66, p. 66, p. 69, p. 69, p. 95, p. 95, p. 98, p. 98.
• The Ottawa naturalist. Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. url p. 158, p. 158, p. 19, p. 19, p. 42, p. 42.
• Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis. [St. Louis: Academy of Science of St. Louis], 1860-1958. url p. 105, p. 105, p. 105, p. 82, p. 82, p. 82.
• Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science. Springfield, Ill., Illinois State Academy of Science [etc.] url p. 107, p. 179.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 16, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 13, 2007:

• Academy of Natural Sciences, Academy of Natural Sciences Malacology Database

Identifiers

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 16173382
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2256920

Footnotes

1. Mean = 269.630 meters (884.613 feet), Standard Deviation = 467.290 based on 116 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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