Cochlostoma

Cochlostoma is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Cochlostomatidae.

Cochlostoma
Cochlostoma nouleti
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:
Cyclophoroidea
Family:
Cochlostomatidae
Genus:
Cochlostoma

Jan, 1830[1]
Species

See text.

Distribution

Calcareous terrains of South Europe and North Africa.[2]

Description and Anatomy

Mantle caves serve as pulmones. Operculum corneous and multispiral. Penis is oriented above the right tentacle. Sexual dimorphism is often recognisable in external morphology.[2]

Ecology

All species are confined to limestone habitats, feeding on dead plants and microflora.[2] Females lays large eggs, hatching after three to six weeks.[2]

Species

The genus Cochlostoma contains at least 140 species and subspecies, including:[3][4][5]

subgenus Auritus

  • Cochlostoma auritum (Rossmässler, 1837)
  • Cochlostoma fuchsi Feher, 2004
  • Cochlostoma georgi (A.J. Wagner, 1906)
  • Cochlostoma hoyeri (Polinski, 1922)
  • Cochlostoma pinteri Feher, 2004

subgenus Cochlostoma

  • Cochlostoma braueri (A.J. Wagner, 1897)
  • Cochlostoma cinerascens (Rossmässler, 1837)
  • Cochlostoma cretense (Maltzan, 1887)
  • Cochlostoma elegans (Clessin, 1879)
  • Cochlostoma henricae (Strobel, 1851)
  • Cochlostoma mostarensis (A.J. Wagner, 1906)
  • Cochlostoma scalarinum (A. & J.B. Villa, 1841)
  • Cochlostoma septemspirale (Razoumowsky, 1789)

subgenus Holcopoma

subgenus Obscurella

  • Cochlostoma apricum (Mousson, 1847)
  • Cochlostoma asturicum (Raven, 1990)
  • Cochlostoma bicostulatum Gofas, 1989
  • Cochlostoma canestrinii (Adami, 1876)
  • Cochlostoma conicum (Vallot, 1801)
  • Cochlostoma gigas Gofas & Backeljau, 1994
  • Cochlostoma hidalgoi (Crosse, 1864)
  • Cochlostoma martorelli (Servain, 1880)
  • Cochlostoma nouleti (Dupuy, 1851)
  • Cochlostoma obscurum (Draparnaud, 1805)
  • Cochlostoma oscitans Gofas, 1989
  • Cochlostoma partioti (Saint-Simon, 1848)
  • †Cochlostoma salomoni Geyer, 1914

subgenus Turritus

  • Cochlostoma acutum (Caziot, 1908)
  • Cochlostoma adamii (Paulucci, 1879)
  • Cochlostoma affine (Benoit, 1882)
  • Cochlostoma alleryanum (Paulucci, 1879)
  • Cochlostoma anomphale Boeckel, 1939
  • Cochlostoma crosseanum (Paulucci, 1879)
  • Cochlostoma dalmatinum (L. Pfeiffer, 1863)
  • Cochlostoma erika (A.J. Wagner, 1906)
  • Cochlostoma euboicum (Westerlund, 1885)
  • Cochlostoma gracile (L. Pfeiffer, 1849)
  • Cochlostoma intermedium (Pini, 1884)
  • Cochlostoma kleciaki (Braun, 1887)
  • Cochlostoma macei (Bourguignat, 1869)
  • Cochlostoma montanum (Issel, 1866)
  • Cochlostoma nanum (Westerlund, 1879)
  • Cochlostoma pageti Klemm, 1962
  • Cochlostoma paladilhianum (Saint-Simon, 1869)
  • Cochlostoma patulum (Draparnaud, 1801)
  • Cochlostoma philippianum (Gredler, 1853)
  • Cochlostoma porroi (Strobel, 1850)
  • Cochlostoma sardoum (Westerlund, 1890)
  • Cochlostoma simrothi (Caziot, 1908)
  • Cochlostoma stossichi (Hirc, 1881)
  • Cochlostoma sturanii (A.J. Wagner, 1897)
  • Cochlostoma subalpinum (Pini, 1884)
  • Cochlostoma tergestinum (Westerlund, 1878)
  • Cochlostoma villae (Strobel, 1851)
  • Cochlostoma waldemari (A.J. Wagner, 1897)
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References

This article incorporates public domain text from reference[2]

  1. Jan G. (1830). Scientiae naturalis cultoribus conspectus methodicus testaceorum in collectione mea exstantium anno 1830. pp. 1-8. Parma.
  2. "Genus summary for Cochlostoma". AnimalBase, last modified 4 July 2012, accessed 29 August 2014.
  3. "Taxon Details: Cochlostoma Jan 1830". Fauna Europaea. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
  4. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 29 August 2014.
  5. Welter Schultes, F. "Species in genus Cochlostoma". AnimalBase. SUB Göttingen. Retrieved 29 August 2014.

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