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: Odontostomidae
Genus: Odontostomus
Gray, 1847

Odontostomus is a genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Odontostomidae.[1]

Odontostomus is the type genus for the tribe Odontostomini.[2]

Distribution

This genus of snails occurs in Brazil.

Species

Species in the genus Odontostomus include:[3]

References

  1. Breure A. S. H. & Ablett J. D. (2012) "Annotated type catalogue of the Bothriembryontidae and Odontostomidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London". ZooKeys 182: 1-70. doi:10.3897/zookeys.182.2720.
  2. Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  3. 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

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