Oestophora

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

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

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, no penial papilla.[2] There is one small dart sac, one longer accessory sac separated from vaginal walls and vagina with 3 simple and long accessory (mucus) glands.[2]

The number of haploid chromosomes is 30.[3]

Species

Species within the genus Oestophoa include:

  • Oestophora barbula (Rossmässler, 1838)[4]
  • Oestophora calpeana (Morelet, 1854)[4]
  • Oestophora dorotheae Hesse, 1930[4]
  • Oestophora granesae Arrébola Burgos, 1998[4]
  • Oestophora lusitanica (Pfeiffer, 1841) - type species[4]
  • Oestophora ortizi Winter & Ripken, 1991[4]
  • Oestophora silvae Ortiz de Zárate López, 1962[4]
  • Oestophora tarnieri (Morelet, 1854)[4]

Synonyms:

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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. "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. "Species in genus Oestophora (n=8)". AnimalBase, accessed 12 January 2011.
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