| Tomogeridae | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Helicina |
| Superfamily: | Orthalicoidea |
| Family: | Tomogeridae Jousseaume, 1877 |
Tomogeridae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Orthalicoidea [1]
(Original description in French) "For M. Jousseaume, the genus Anostoma constitutes a family to which he gives the name TOMOGERIDAE, and which contains two perfectly distinct genera: one with an imperforate peristome, which is the genus Tomogeres of Montfort (Anostoma of Fischer, not Anostomus of Gronov); and the other with a perforate peristome, for which he creates the genus Tomogerina, whose type would be Anostoma globulosum Lam." [2]
Tomogeres and Tomogerina are both now considered synonyms of Anastoma. Anostomag globulosum is a synonym of Anostoma ringens(Linnaeus, 1758)
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