Eumecostylus

Eumecostylus, or flax snails, are a genus of very large, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Bothriembryontidae.[1]

Eumecostylus
Shell of Eumecostylus almiranta (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Superorder: Eupulmonata
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]
  • Bulimus (Eumecostylus) Martens, 1860 (original rank)
  • Placostylus (Eumecostylus) Martens, 1860
  • Placostylus (Proaspastus) Clench, 1941 (junior synonym)
  • Proaspastus Clench, 1941 (junior synonym)

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

  1. 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
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