Eumecostylus

Eumecostylus, or flax snails, are a genus of very large, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Bothriembryontidae.^[1]

Eumecostylus
Shell of Eumecostylus almiranta (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Helicina
Superfamily:	Orthalicoidea
Family:	Bothriembryontidae
Genus:	Eumecostylus E. von Martens, 1860
Type species
Bulimus cleryi Petit de la Saussaye, 1850
Synonyms[1]
Bulimus (Eumecostylus) Martens, 1860 (original rank) Placostylus (Eumecostylus) Martens, 1860 Placostylus (Proaspastus) Clench, 1941 (junior synonym) Proaspastus Clench, 1941 (junior synonym)

Species

Species within this genus include:

• Eumecostylus almiranta (Clench, 1941)
• Eumecostylus calus (E. A. Smith, 1892)
• Eumecostylus cleryi (Petit de la Saussaye, 1850)
• Eumecostylus cylindricus (Fulton, 1907)
• Eumecostylus foxi (Clench, 1950)
• Eumecostylus fraterculus (B. Rensch, 1934)
• Eumecostylus gallegoi (Clench, 1941)
• Eumecostylus gardneri Delsaerdt, 2010
• Eumecostylus hargravesi (Cox, 1871)
• Eumecostylus kirakiraensis (B. Rensch, 1934)
• Eumecostylus phenax (Clapp, 1923)
• Eumecostylus sanchristovalensis (Cox, 1870)
• Eumecostylus scottii (Cox, 1873)
• Eumecostylus uliginosus (Kobelt, 1891)
• Eumecostylus unicus (B. Rensch, 1934)
• Eumecostylus vicinus (B. Rensch, 1934)