Odontostomus

Odontostomus
Odontostomus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Orthalicoidea
Family: Orthalicidae
Subfamily: Bulimulinae
Tribe: Odontostomini
Genus: Odontostomus
Gray, 1847[verification needed]

Odontostomus is a genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the tribe Odontostomini, in the subfamily Bulimulinae, within the family Orthalicidae.

Odontostomus is the type genus for the tribe Odontostomini.

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Distribution

This genus of snails occurs in Brazil.

Species

Species in the genus Odontostomus include[1]:

  • Odontostomus dautzenbergianus Pilsbry, 1898
  • Odontostomus degeneratus Pilsbry, 1899
  • Odontostomus fasciatus (Pfeiffer, 1869)
  • Odontostomus gargantuus (Rang, 1831)
  • Odontostomus gemellatus Ancey, 1901
  • Odontostomus grayanus (Pfeiffer, 1845)
  • Odontostomus königswaldi (Thiele, 1906)
  • Odontostomus leucotremus (Beck, 1837)
  • Odontostomus odontostomus (Sowerby, 1824)
  • Odontostomus paulistus Pilsbry & Ihering, 1898
  • Odontostomus sexdentatus (Spix, 1827)
  • Odontostomus simplex (Thiele, 1906)
  • Odontostomus squarrosus Ancey, 1904
  • Odontostomus thielei (Pilsbry, 1930)

References

  1. ^ Norma Campos Salgado & Arnaldo C. dos Santos Coelho. 2003. Moluscos terrestres do Brasil (Gastrópodes operculados ou não, exclusive Veronicellidae, Milacidae e Limacidae). Rev. Biol. Trop. 51 (Suppl. 3): 149-189. (in Portuguese with English abstract)

Further reading

  • Baker, H.B. 1947. Odontostomus odontostomus and Cyclodontina pantagruelina. The Nautilus 60: 106.
  • Pilsbry, H.A. 1898. Notes on the genus Odontostomus. The Nautilus, Philadelphia, 12: 57-58.
  • Pilsbry, H.A. 1898-1899. New species of Odontostomus from Brazil and Argentina. Proceedingss of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 50: 471-472, 473-474 (1899).