Odontostomidae is a
taxonomic family
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of medium-sized to large, air-breathing, tropical and sub-tropical
land snails,
terrestrial
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pulmonate gastropod molluscs
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in the superfamily
Orthalicoidea
The Orthalicoidea are a superfamily of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the infraorder Orthalicoidei of the suborder HelicinaMolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Simpulopsidae Schileyko, 1999. Accessed through: W ...
.
[Breure A. S. H. & Romero P. (2012). "Support and surprises: molecular phylogeny of the land snail superfamily Orthalicoidea using a three-locus gene analysis with a divergence time analysis and ancestral area reconstruction (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". '' Archiv für Molluskenkunde: International Journal of Malacology'' 141(1): 1-20. .]
Taxonomy
2005 taxonomy
This taxon was placed as the tribe Odontostomini, in the subfamily
Bulimulinae
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, within the family
Orthalicidae
Orthalicidae (orthalicid land snails) are a family of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks are classified in the subfamily Orthalicoidea of the order Stylommatophora. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). Mollusca ...
, according to the
taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)
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.
2010 taxonomy
Breure et al. (2010)
elevated Odontostomini to Odontostomidae.
[Breure A. S. H., Groenenberg D. S. J. & Schilthuizen M. (2010). "New insights in the phylogenetic relations within the Orthalicoidea (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora) based on 28S sequence data". '']Basteria
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'' 74(1-3): 25-31.
Genera
Genera in the family Odontostomidae include:
* ''
Anostoma'' Fischer von Waldheim, 1807 - synonym: ''
Ringicella'' Gray, 1847 cf.
[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
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'' 182: 1-70. .
* ''
Bahiensis'' Jousseaume, 1877
[Breure A. S. H. & Romero P. (2012). "Support and surprises: molecular phylogeny of the land snail superfamily Orthalicoidea using a three-locus gene analysis with a divergence time analysis and ancestral area reconstruction (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". '' Archiv für Molluskenkunde: International Journal of Malacology'' 141(1): 1-20. .]
* ''
Biotocus'' Salgado & Leme, 1990
* ''
Bonnanius'' Jousseaume, 1900
* ''
Clessinia'' Doering, 1874
* ''
Cyclodontina'' Beck, 1837
* ''
Digerus'' Haas, 1937 cf.
[ 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. (with English abstract)
* ''
Hyperaulax'' Pilsbry, 1897
* ''
Moricandia'' Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1898
* ''
Odontostomus'' Beck, 1837 - type genus of the tribe Odontostomini
* ''
Plagiodontes'' Doering, 1876
* ''
Spixia'' Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1898
* ''
Tomigerus'' Spix, 1827
Description
Species in tribe Odontostomini have the aperture obstructed by internal lamellae, folds or teeth (rarely absent by degeneration); the base is perforate
or has an umbilical suture; and the genitalia are extremely lengthened. Jaw either plaited or solid.
Odontostomini is clearly a natural group of genera, confined to South America east of the Andes, and with the exception of some species, south of the Amazon. That the whole series had its inception in a form in which the characteristic apertural teeth had already been developed, is demonstrated by
the fact that these lamella and folds are clearly homologous throughout the species of the several genera. It follows from this that the toothless forms, such as ''
Moricandia'', are secondarily so, by degeneration of the teeth of their ancestors. Many species show the various stages of tooth
degeneration.
References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference
[ Pilsbry H. A. 1901. in Tryon G. W. & Pilsbry H. A. 1901-1902 ]
''Oriental Bulimoid Helicidae. Odontostominae. Cerionidae'' Volume 14
Manual of Conchology. Second series: Pulmonata. pag
24
External links
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Taxa named by Henry Augustus Pilsbry
Gastropod families