Cylindrus

Cylindrus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.

Cylindrus
Apertural view of a shell of Cylindrus obtusus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Helicidae
Subfamily:	Ariantinae
Genus:	Cylindrus Fitzinger, 1833[1]

According to some authors, the name Cylindrus Fitzinger, 1833 was homonymous with the cone snail genus Cylindrus Batsch, 1789, an alternate representation of Conus Linnaeus, 1758 and Cylindrus Deshayes, 1824 . The counter argument of others was, that these names have never been in use. As a result, an application to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) for the conservation of the name Cylindrus Fitzinger, 1833.^[2] was made. In January 2019 the ICZN decided to conserve the name Cylindrus Fitzinger, 1833.^[3]

Species

The genus Cylindrus contains the following species:

• Cylindrus obtusus