Gonyostomus

Gonyostomus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Strophocheilidae endemic to Brazil.[1][2]

Gonyostomus
Gonyostomus goniostomus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Acavoidea
Family:
Strophocheilidae
Genus:
Gonyostomus

Beck, 1837

Species

Species within the genus Gonyostomus include:

  • Gonyostomus egregius (Pfeiffer, 1845)
  • Gonyostomus elinae Simone, 2016
  • Gonyostomus gonyostomus (Férussac, 1821)
  • Gonyostomus insularis Leme, 1974
  • Gonyostomus turnix (Férussac, 1821)
    • Gonyostomus turnix var. albolabiatus Jaeckel, 1927

References
  1. Simone, L. R. L. (2006). Land and Freshwater Molluscs of Brazil. São Paulo, Brazil: EGB, Fapesp. p. 390. ISBN 85-906670-0-6.
  2. Simone, L. R. L. (2016). A new species of the genus Gonyostomus from Brazil (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora, Strophocheilidae). Spixiana 39(1): 11–13.


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