Kalidos

Kalidos
Shell of Kalidos chastellii (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Helicarionoidea
Family: Helicarionidae
Genus: Kalidos
Gude, 1911
Type species
Helix (Nanina) cleamesi E. A. Smith, 1882
Synonyms
  • Amphiblema Gude, 1911
  • Methuenia (incorrect subsequent spelling)
  • Methvenia Robson, 1914 (junior synonym)
  • Propebloyetia Germain, 1913

Kalidos is a genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Helicarioninae of the family Helicarionidae.

Description

(Original description) The depressed shell is conoid. It is finely striated, and decussated by fine or coarse spirals. The periphery is rounded or angular. The umbilicus is small.

Distribution

This genus occurs in Madagascar.

Species

Species within the genus Kalidos include:

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. ↑ Gude G. P. L. K. (1911). Proc. malac. Soc. London 9: 273.
  2. 1 2 MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Kalidos Gude, 1911. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996393 on 2021-04-10
  3. 1 2 3 4 Emberton K C., Slapcinsky J., Campbell C. A., Rakotondrazafy J. A., Andriamiarison T. N. & Emberton J. D. (2010). "Terrestrial mollusks of Andriantantely Massif, Eastern Madagascar, with descriptions of 36 new species (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda; Pulmonata)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 139(1): 71-141. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/139/071-141
  4. ↑ Gude, G. K. (1911). Note on some preoccupied generic names and proposed new genera of the family Zonitidae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 9(4): 269-273
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