Leptopomoides

Leptopomoides is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Cyclophoridae.[1] These snails are restricted to Western Ghats of India and Sri Lanka.

Leptopomoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
Order:
Stylommatophora
Superfamily:
Punctoidea
Family:
Cyclophoridae
Subfamily:
Cyclophorinae
Genus:
Leptopomoides

G. Nevill, 1878
Synonyms
  • Cyclophorus (Leptopomoides) G. Nevill, 1878
  • Leptopomatoides Martens, 1878

Seven species are recognized.[2][3]

Species
  • Leptopomoides conulus (Pfeiffer, 1855)
  • Leptopomoides flammeus (Pfeiffer, 1855)
  • Leptopomoides halophilus (W.H. Benson, 1851)
  • Leptopomoides orophilus (W.H. Benson, 1853)
  • Leptopomoides poecilus (Pfeiffer, 1855)
  • Leptopomoides taprobanensis (Peston, 1909)
  • Leptopomoides valvatus (O.F. von Möllendorff, 1897)

References
  1. "Taxon details - Eurychlamys Godwin-Austen, 1899". WoRMS. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
  2. "MolluscaBase taxon details - Leptopomoides G. Nevill, 1878". MolluscaBase. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
  3. "Sri Lanka Species Database - CHM Sri Lanka". Clearing House Mechanism. Retrieved 25 February 2019.


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