Kalidos

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Kalidos
Kalidos huberi (MNHN-IM-2000-34066).jpeg
Shell of Kalidos chastellii (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Helicarionoidea
Family: Helicarionidae
Genus: Kalidos
Gude, 1911 [1]
Type species
Helix (Nanina) cleamesiE. A. Smith, 1882
Synonyms [2]
  • AmphiblemaGude, 1911
  • Methuenia (incorrect subsequent spelling)
  • MethveniaRobson, 1914 (junior synonym)
  • Propebloyetia Germain, 1913

Kalidos is a genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Helicarioninae of the family Helicarionidae. [3] [2]

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Description

(Original description) The depressed shell is conoid. It is finely striated, and decussated by fine or coarse spirals. The periphery is rounded or angular. The umbilicus is small. [4]

Distribution

This genus occurs in Madagascar.

Species

Species within the genus Kalidos include:

Species broughht into synonymy

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References

  1. ↑ Gude G. P. L. K. (1911). Proc. malac. Soc. London9: 273.
  2. 1 2 MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Kalidos Gude, 1911. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996393 on 2021-04-10
  3. 1 2 3 4 Emberton K C., Slapcinsky J., Campbell C. A., Rakotondrazafy J. A., Andriamiarison T. N. & Emberton J. D. (2010). "Terrestrial mollusks of Andriantantely Massif, Eastern Madagascar, with descriptions of 36 new species (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda; Pulmonata)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 139(1): 71-141. doi : 10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/139/071-141
  4. ↑ Gude, G. K. (1911). Note on some preoccupied generic names and proposed new genera of the family Zonitidae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 9(4): 269-273
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