Oestophora Explained

Oestophora is a genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Trissexodontidae.

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Oestophora includes western Iberian peninsula, north Africa and the Azores.

Description

The shell is ribbed, with rounded or keeled whorls. The apertural margin is reflected and thickened.

Reproductive system

There is no flagellum, no penial papilla. There is one small dart sac, one longer accessory sac separated from vaginal walls and vagina with 3 simple and long accessory (mucus) glands.

The number of haploid chromosomes is 30.^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Oestophoa include:

• Oestophora barbula (Rossmässler, 1838)^[2]
• Oestophora barrelsi (Hovestadt & Ripken, 2015)^[3]
• Oestophora calpeana (Morelet, 1854)^[2]
• Oestophora dorotheae Hesse, 1930^[2]
• Oestophora granesae Arrébola Burgos, 1998^[2]
• Oestophora lusitanica (Pfeiffer, 1841) - type species^[2]
• Oestophora ortizi Winter & Ripken, 1991^[2]
• Oestophora silvae Ortiz de Zárate López, 1962^[2]
• Oestophora tarnieri (Morelet, 1854)^[2]

Synonyms:

• Oestophora turriplana is a synonym for Gittenbergeria turriplana (Morelet, 1845)

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference ^[4]

Notes and References

1. Prieto C. E., Puente A. I, Altonaga K. & Gomez J. (1993). "Genital morphology of Caracolina lenticula (Michaud, 1831), with a new proposal of classification of helicodontoid genera (Pulmonata: Hygromioidea)". Malacologia 35(1): 63-77. page 73-74.
2. http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/list/species?taxongenus=2673 "Species in genus Oestophora (n=8)"
3. Hovestadt . Adriaan . E. J. Ripken . Theo . A new Oestophora (Gastropoda, Eupulmonata, Trissexodontidae) from Ilha da Berlenga, Portugal . Basteria . 1 January 2015 . 79 . 1/3 . 30–31 . 9 September 2021 . en . 0005-6219.
4. http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/genus?id=1117 "Genus summary for Oestophora"