Odontartemon Explained

Odontartemon is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Streptaxinae of the family Streptaxidae.

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Odontartemon includes:

• West Africa^[1]
• South America (Brazil)

Species

Species within the genus Odontartemon include:

• Odontartemon bidens (Möllendorff, 1883)
• Odontartemon dejectus (Moricand, 1836)
• Odontartemon paulus (Gude, 1896)
• Odontartemon schomburgi Yen, 1939

Species brought into synonymy:

• Odontartemon balingensis Tomlin, 1948: synonym of Oophana balingensis (Tomlin, 1948) (original combination)
• Odontartemon fuchsianus (Gredler, 1881): synonym of Indoartemon fuchsianus (Gredler, 1881) (unaccepted combination)

References

• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017

External links

• Ancey, C. F. (1884). Sur les divisions proposées dans le genre Streptaxis. Le Naturaliste. 6(50): 399
• Rowson, B. (2010). Systematics and diversity of the Streptaxidae (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora). Ph.D. thesis, University of Wales, Cardiff. Pp. i–vii + 1–307

Notes and References

1. Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of Diaphera Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 1-16. .