Anostoma baileyi

Anostoma baileyi is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Odontostomidae.

Anostoma baileyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Orthalicoidea
Family:
Odontostomidae
Genus:
Anostoma
Species:
A. baileyi
Binomial name
Anostoma baileyi
Solem, 1956[1]

Distribution

This species occurs in Brazil.[2]

Shell description

The shell has 5-5.25 whorls.[1]

The width of adult shells is 29.6-32.3 mm, the height is 15.1-17.2 mm.[1]

The main differences between the shell of this species and the similar shell of Anostoma rossi are that this shell has no spiral sculpture and the aperture is more elongated.[1]

References
  1. Solem A. 1956. Non marine Mollusca from Salobra, Mato Grosso, Brazil and a collection of South Brazilian Artemon. Notulae Naturae, Philadelphia, 287: 1-14. (googlebooks)
  2. Norma Campos Salgado & Arnaldo C. dos Santos Coelho. 2003. Moluscos terrestres do Brasil (Gastrópodes operculados ou não, exclusive Veronicellidae, Milacidae e Limacidae) Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine. Rev. Biol. Trop. 51 (Suppl. 3): 149-189. (in Portuguese with English abstract)


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