''Odontostomus'' is a

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of air-breathing

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, a

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pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...

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in the family

Odontostomidae Odontostomidae is a taxonomic family of medium-sized to large, air-breathing, tropical and sub-tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Orthalicoidea.Breure A. S. H. & Romero P. (2012). "Support and su ...

.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". ''

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'' 182: 1-70. . ''Odontostomus'' is the

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for the tribe Odontostomini.

Distribution

This genus of snails occurs in

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

Species

Species in the genus ''Odontostomus'' include: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) * '' 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)

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