''Gonostomopsis'' is a
genus
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of air-breathing
land snails,
terrestrial
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pulmonate gastropod mollusk
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s in the subfamily Pleurodontinae of the family
Pleurodontidae
Pleurodontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Pleurodontidae Ihering, 1912. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Sp ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Gonostomopsis Pilsbry, 1889. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996649 on 2021-01-03]
Genera
* ''
Gonostomopsis auridens''
(Rang, 1834) (synonym: ''Helix auridens''
Rang, 1834, ''Pleurodonte auridens''
(Rang, 1834))
Description
The shell is narrowly umbilicated, rather thin, opaque, hirsute. The
spire
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is depressed,
body-whorl depressed, rounded at periphery. The
Aperture
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An ...
is as high as wide and trilobate-lunar. The
peristome Peristome (from the Greek ''peri'', meaning 'around' or 'about', and ''stoma'', 'mouth') is an anatomical feature that surrounds an opening to an organ or structure. Some plants, fungi, and shelled gastropods have peristomes.
In mosses
In mosse ...
is narrowly expanded, the outer and basal margins each with one tooth. Type ''P. auridens''.
Manual of conchology, structural and systematic ser. 2 v.9 (1894)
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Distribution
This genus occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Martinique
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.
References
* A.A. SCHILEYKO (2006, Treatise on recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs. Part 13. - Ruthenica, Supplement 2: 1765–1906);
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
External links
MNHN, Paris: syntype
Sei, Makiri & Robinson, David & Geneva, Anthony & Rosenberg, Gary. (2017). Doubled helix: Sagdoidea is the overlooked sister group of Helicoidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 1-32. 10.1093
Pleurodontidae
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