Varicostele

Varicostele is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.[2]

Varicostele
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Streptaxoidea
Family:
Streptaxidae
Subfamily:
Enneinae
Genus:
Varicostele

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Varicostele includes:

Species

Species within the genus Varicostele include:

  • Varicostele lessensis Pilsbry, 1919[3]

References
  1. Pilsbry H. A. (1919). Bull. Amer. Mus. nat. Hist. 40: art. 1, 7, 180, 193.
  2. Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of Diaphera Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 1-16. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00598.x.
  3. Wronski T. & Hausdorf B. (2010). "Diversity and body-size patterns of land snails in rain forests in Uganda". Journal of Molluscan Studies 76(1): 87-100. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyp048.


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