Eumecostylus
Genus of gastropods
| Eumecostylus | |
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| Shell of Eumecostylus almiranta (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Helicina |
| Superfamily: | Orthalicoidea |
| Family: | Bothriembryontidae |
| Genus: | Eumecostylus E. von Martens, 1860 |
| Type species | |
| Bulimus cleryi Petit de la Saussaye, 1850 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Eumecostylus, or flax snails, are a genus of very large, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Bothriembryontidae.[1]
Species
Species within this genus include:
- Eumecostylus almiranta (Clench, 1941)
- Eumecostylus calus (E. A. Smith, 1892)
- Eumecostylus cleryi (Petit de la Saussaye, 1850)
- Eumecostylus cylindricus (Fulton, 1907)
- Eumecostylus foxi (Clench, 1950)
- Eumecostylus fraterculus (B. Rensch, 1934)
- Eumecostylus gallegoi (Clench, 1941)
- Eumecostylus gardneri Delsaerdt, 2010
- Eumecostylus hargravesi (Cox, 1871)
- Eumecostylus kirakiraensis (B. Rensch, 1934)
- Eumecostylus phenax (Clapp, 1923)
- Eumecostylus sanchristovalensis (Cox, 1870)
- Eumecostylus scottii (Cox, 1873)
- Eumecostylus uliginosus (Kobelt, 1891)
- Eumecostylus unicus (B. Rensch, 1934)
- Eumecostylus vicinus (B. Rensch, 1934)
References
- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Eumecostylus E. von Martens, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=863055 on 2020-11-14
- Neubert, E., Chérel-Mora C. & Bouchet P. (2009). Polytypy, clines, and fragmentation: The bulimes of New Caledonia revisited (Pulmonata, Orthalicoidea, Placostylidae). In P. Grancolas (ed.), Zoologia Neocaledonica 7. Biodiversity studies in New Caledonia. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 198: 37–131.
- Delsaerdt, A., 2010. Land snails on the Solomon Islands. Volume 1. Placostylidae
External links
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- J. C.; Martens, E. von. (1860). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet von Joh. Christ. Albers. Ed. 2. Pp. i-xviii, 1-359. Leipzig: Engelman
- Clench, W.J. (1941). The Land Mollusca of the Solomon Islands (Succineidae, Bulimulidae and Partulidae). American Museum Novitates. 1129: 1-21.
