Odontostomus

Odontostomus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Odontostomidae
Genus:	Odontostomus Gray, 1847 [1]
Synonyms
Bulimus (Odontostomus)H. Beck, 1837 superseded combination Clausilia (Macrodontes)Swainson, 1840 junior subjective synonym MacrodontesSwainson, 1840 junior subjective synonym MacrodontopsisThiele, 1931 junior subjective synonym Odontostomus (Macrodontes)Swainson, 1840 junior subjective synonym Odontostomus (Macrodontopsis)Thiele, 1931 Odontostomus (Odontostomus)H. Beck, 1837 alternative representation

Odontostomus is a genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Odontostomidae. ^[2]

Odontostomus is the type genus for the tribe Odontostomini. ^[3]

Distribution

This genus of snails occurs in Brazil.

Species

Species in the genus Odontostomus include: ^[4]

• Odontostomus dautzenbergianus Pilsbry, 1898
• Odontostomus degeneratus Pilsbry, 1899
• Odontostomus fasciatus (Pfeiffer, 1869)
• Odontostomus gargantua (Rang, 1831)
• Odontostomus grayanus (Pfeiffer, 1845)
• Odontostomus koenigswaldi (Thiele, 1906)
• Odontostomus kuhnholtzianus (Crosse, 1870)
• Odontostomus odontostoma (Sowerby, 1824)
• Odontostomus paulista Pilsbry & Ihering, 1898
• Odontostomus sexdentatus (Spix, 1827)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Odontostomus simplex (Thiele, 1906)
• Odontostomus tenuisculptus J. J. Parodiz, 1963

Synonyms

• Odontostomus gemellatusAncey, 1901: synonym of Cyclodontina gemellata (Ancey, 1901) (superseded combination)
• Odontostomus leucotremus(Beck, 1837): synonym of Burringtonia leucotrema (Beck, 1837)
• Odontostomus squarrosusAncey, 1904: synonym of Cyclodontina squarrosa (Ancey, 1904) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
• Odontostomus thielei(Pilsbry, 1930): synonym of Odontostomus gargantua(A. Férussac, 1821)

References

1. Gray, J. E. (1847). "A List of the Genera of Recent Mollusca, Their Synonyma and Types". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London . 15: 129 at 174.
2. 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 .
3. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia . 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN   3-925919-72-4. ISSN   0076-2997.
4. Norma Campos Salgado & Arnaldo C. dos Santos Coelho. 2003. Moluscos terrestres do Brasil (Gastrópodes operculados ou não, exclusive Veronicellidae, Milacidae e Limacidae) Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine . 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).