Odontostomus
Encyclopedia
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
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Odontostomus is the type genus
for the tribe Odontostomini.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of air-breathing land snail
Land snail
A land snail is any of the many species of snail that live on land, as opposed to those that live in salt water and fresh water. Land snails are terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells, It is not always an easy matter to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less...
, a terrestrial
Terrestrial animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...
pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the tribe Odontostomini, in the subfamily Bulimulinae, within the family Orthalicidae
Orthalicidae
Orthalicidae are a family of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks are classified in the informal group Sigmurethra of the clade Stylommatophora...
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Odontostomus is the type genus
Type genus
In biological classification, a type genus is a representative genus, as with regard to a biological family. The term and concept is used much more often and much more formally in zoology than it is in botany, and the definition is dependent on the nomenclatural Code that applies:* In zoological...
for the tribe Odontostomini.
Species
Species in the genus Odontostomus include:- 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)
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).