Oestophora

Oestophora
Oestophora barbula (Rossmässler, 1838)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Helicoidea
Family:
Trissexodontidae
Genus:
Oestophora

Hesse, 1907[1]
Diversity[2]
about 10 species

Oestophora is a genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Trissexodontidae.

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Oestophora includes western Iberian Peninsula, north Africa and the Azores.[2]

Description

The shell is ribbed, with rounded or keeled whorls.[2] The apertural margin is reflected and thickened.[2]

Reproductive system

There is no flagellum, or penial papilla.[2] There is one small dart sac, one longer accessory sac separated from vaginal walls and a vagina with three simple and long accessory (mucous) glands.[2]

The number of haploid chromosomes is 30.[3]

Species

Species within the genus Oestophoa include:

Synonyms:

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference [2]

  1. ^ (in German) Hesse P. (1907). "Kritische Fragmente". Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 39(2): 69-77. Frankfurt am Main. page 76.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Genus summary for Oestophora". AnimalBase, last modified 17 July 2008, accessed 13 January 2011.
  3. ^ Prieto C. E., Puente A. I, Altonaga K. & Gomez J. (1993). "Genital morphology of Caracolina lenticula (Michaud, 1831), with a new proposal of classification of helicodontoid genera (Pulmonata: Hygromioidea)". Malacologia 35(1): 63-77. page 73-74.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h "Species in genus Oestophora (n=8)". AnimalBase, accessed 12 January 2011.
  5. ^ Hovestadt, Adriaan; E. J. Ripken, Theo (1 January 2015). "A new Oestophora (Gastropoda, Eupulmonata, Trissexodontidae) from Ilha da Berlenga, Portugal". Basteria. 79 (1/3): 30–31. ISSN 0005-6219. Retrieved 9 September 2021.