Odontostomidae

Odontostomidae
Drawing of the apertural view of a shell of Hyperaulax ridleyi.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Superfamily: Orthalicoidea
Family: Odontostomidae
Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1898
Genera

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Diversity[1]
125 species
Synonyms[2][3]
  • Odontostomini Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1898
  • Tomogeridae Jousseaume, 1877

Odontostomidae is a taxonomic family of medium-sized to large, air-breathing, tropical and sub-tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Orthalicoidea.[4][3]

  1. ^ Breure A., Groenenberg D. & Schilthuizen M. (2010). "Gondwana revisited: New insights in the phylogenetic relationships within the Orthalicoidea (Mollusca, Stylommatophora)". poster. PDF Archived 2012-03-09 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Bouchet 2005 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b Breure A. S. H. & Romero P. (2012). "Support and surprises: molecular phylogeny of the land snail superfamily Orthalicoidea using a three-locus gene analysis with a divergence time analysis and ancestral area reconstruction (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde: International Journal of Malacology 141(1): 1-20. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/141/001-020.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Breure 2010 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).