Tomostele musaecola
# Tomostele musaecola

Tomostele musaecola is a species of small air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Streptaxidae.

## 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).
* 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.

