Plekocheilus

Plekocheilus
Apertual view of a shell of Plekocheilus euryomphalus.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Orthalicoidea
Family: Amphibulimidae
Genus: Plekocheilus
Guilding, 1828[1]
Diversity
67 species (in this list)

Plekocheilus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Amphibulimidae.[2]

Distribution

This genus occurs in South America: Colombia,[3] Venezuela, Brazil and Ecuador.

Species

Species within the genus Plekocheilus include:

subgenus Aeropictus Weyrauch, 1967[2]

subgenus Eudolichotis Pilsbry, 1896[4][2]

subgenus Eurytus Albers, 1850[6][2]

subgenus Plekocheilus Guilding, 1828[2]

Un-assignable taxa[3]

References

  1. Guilding L. (1827). Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 15(2): 512.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 Breure A. S. H. & Ablett J. D. (2011) "Annotated type catalogue of the Amphibulimidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London". ZooKeys 138: 1-52. doi:10.3897/zookeys.138.1847.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 Borrero F. J. & Breure A. S. H. (2011). "The Amphibulimidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Orthalicoidea) from Colombia and adjacent areas". Zootaxa 3054: 1-59. preview.
  4. Pilsbry H. A. (1896). In: Tryon G. W. & Pilsbry H. A. Manual of Conchology (2)10, fasc. 3, no. 39, page 108.
  5. 1 2 Arias C, Sergio, 1952. Algunos moluscos de la región Baruta - EL Hatilllo. Memoria de la Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle XII(31):47-65
  6. Albers (1850). Die Heliceen, page 169.
  7. 1 2 Beaure A. S. H. & Schlögl J. (2010). "Additional notes on Orthalicidae from the Chimantá massif, Venezuelan Guayana, with descriptions of new species of Plekocheilus Guilding, 1828 (Mollusca: Gastropoda)". Zootaxa 2416: 51-60. abstract.
  8. 1 2 3 Breure A. S. H. (2011). "Annotated type catalogue of the Orthalicoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Royal Belgian Institute of Sciences, Brussels, with descriptions of two new species". ZooKeys 101: 1-50. doi:10.3897/zookeys.101.1133.
  9. Breure A. S. H. (in press). "Living in isolation: Plekocheilus (P.) philippei spec. nov. from Venezuelan Guayana (Gastropoda, Amphibulimidae)".

Further reading

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