Cleopatra bulimoides (Olivier 1804)

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)

Varieties

• 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:

• Egypt
• Benin
• Sudan
• ...

Ecology

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

References

• Bourguignat, J.-R. (1885). Mollusques recueillis par M. Paul Soleillet dans son voyage au Choa (Éthiopie méridionale), 1-48, 1 pl. Paris (Mme Ve Tremblay)
• 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