Odontostomus

Odontostomus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Odontostomidae
Genus:	Odontostomus; Gray, 1847
Synonyms
	Bulimus (Odontostomus) H. Beck, 1837 superseded combination; Clausilia (Macrodontes) Swainson, 1840 junior subjective synonym; Macrodontes Swainson, 1840 junior subjective synonym; Macrodontopsis Thiele, 1931 junior subjective synonym; Odontostomus (Macrodontes) Swainson, 1840 junior subjective synonym; Odontostomus (Macrodontopsis) Thiele, 1931; Odontostomus (Odontostomus) H. Beck, 1837 alternative representation;

Odontostomus is a genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Odontostomidae.

Odontostomus is the type genus for the tribe Odontostomini.

Distribution

This genus of snails occurs in Brazil.

Species in the genus Odontostomus include:

Odontostomus gemellatus Ancey, 1901: synonym of Cyclodontina gemellata (Ancey, 1901) (superseded combination)
Odontostomus leucotremus (Beck, 1837): synonym of Burringtonia leucotrema (Beck, 1837)
Odontostomus squarrosus Ancey, 1904: synonym of Cyclodontina squarrosa (Ancey, 1904) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Odontostomus thielei (Pilsbry, 1930): synonym of Odontostomus gargantua (A. Férussac, 1821)

↑ Gray, J. E. (1847). "A List of the Genera of Recent Mollusca, Their Synonyma and Types". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 15: 129 at 174.
↑ Breure A. S. H. & Ablett J. D. (2012) "Annotated type catalogue of the Bothriembryontidae and Odontostomidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London". ZooKeys 182: 1-70. doi:10.3897/zookeys.182.2720.
↑ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)
↑ Norma Campos Salgado & Arnaldo C. dos Santos Coelho. 2003. Moluscos terrestres do Brasil (Gastrópodes operculados ou não, exclusive Veronicellidae, Milacidae e Limacidae) Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine. Rev. Biol. Trop. 51 (Suppl. 3): 149-189. (in Portuguese with English abstract)