title: Tomostele musaecola
text: # 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.
  
  