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

Odontostomus
Scientific classification
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clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
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Odontostomus

Gray, 1847[1]

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

Distribution

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This genus of snails occurs in Brazil.

Species

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Species in the genus Odontostomus include:[4]

References

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  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

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  • 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).