Odontostomus Explained

Odontostomus is a genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Odontostomidae.^[1]

Odontostomus is the type genus for the tribe Odontostomini.

Distribution

This genus of snails occurs in Brazil.

Species

Species in the genus Odontostomus include:^[2]

• Odontostomus dautzenbergianus Pilsbry, 1898
• Odontostomus degeneratus Pilsbry, 1899
• Odontostomus fasciatus (Pfeiffer, 1869)
• Odontostomus gargantuus (Rang, 1831)
• Odontostomus gemellatus Ancey, 1901
• Odontostomus grayanus (Pfeiffer, 1845)
• Odontostomus königswaldi (Thiele, 1906)
• Odontostomus leucotremus (Beck, 1837)
• Odontostomus odontostomus (Sowerby, 1824)
• Odontostomus paulistus Pilsbry & Ihering, 1898
• Odontostomus sexdentatus (Spix, 1827)
• Odontostomus simplex (Thiele, 1906)
• Odontostomus squarrosus Ancey, 1904
• Odontostomus thielei (Pilsbry, 1930)

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).

Notes and References

1. 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. .
2. Norma Campos Salgado & Arnaldo C. dos Santos Coelho. 2003. Moluscos terrestres do Brasil (Gastrópodes operculados ou não, exclusive Veronicellidae, Milacidae e Limacidae) . Rev. Biol. Trop. 51 (Suppl. 3): 149-189. (in Portuguese with English abstract)