Oestophora

Oestophora
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Helicoidea
Family:	Trissexodontidae
Genus:	Oestophora Hesse, 1907[1]
Diversity
about 10 species[2]

Oestophora is a genus of land snail, a gastropod in the Trissexodontidae family.

Distribution

Distribution of genus Oestophora include western Iberian peninsula, north Africa and Azores.^[2]

Description

The shell is ribbed, with rounded or keeled whorls.^[2] The apertural margin is reflected and thickened.^[2]

Reproductive system: There is no flagellum, no penial papilla.^[2] There is one small dart sac, one longer accessory sac separated from vaginal walls and vagina with 3 simple and long accessory (mucus) glands.^[2]

The number of haploid chromosomes is 30.^[3]

Species

It contains the following species:

• Oestophora barbula (Rossmässler, 1838)^[4]
• Oestophora calpeana (Morelet, 1854)^[4]
• Oestophora dorotheae Hesse, 1930^[4]
• Oestophora granesae Arrébola Burgos, 1998^[4]
• Oestophora lusitanica (Pfeiffer, 1841) - type species^[4]
• Oestophora ortizi Winter & Ripken, 1991^[4]
• Oestophora silvae Ortiz de Zárate López, 1962^[4]
• Oestophora tarnieri (Morelet, 1854)^[4]

synonyms:

• Oestophora turriplana is a synonym for Gittenbergeria turriplana (Morelet, 1845)

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference ^[2]

1. ^ (German) Hesse P. (1907). "Kritische Fragmente". Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 39(2): 69-77. Frankfurt am Main. page 76.
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} "Genus summary for Oestophora". AnimalBase, last modified 17 July 2008, accessed 13 January 2011.
3. ^ Prieto C. E., Puente A. I, Altonaga K. & Gomez J. (1993). "Genital morphology of Caracolina lenticula (Michaud, 1831), with a new proposal of classification of helicodontoid genera (Pulmonata: Hygromioidea)". Malacologia 35(1): 63-77. page 73-74.
4. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} "Species in genus Oestophora (n=8)". AnimalBase, accessed 12 January 2011.

External links

• Oestophora at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) website.