Leiostracus

Leiostracus is a genus of small to medium-sized neotropical, air-breathing land snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in family Simpulopsidae.^[2]

Leiostracus
Leiostracus vittatus from Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Helicina
Superfamily:	Orthalicoidea
Family:	Simpulopsidae
Genus:	Leiostracus Albers, 1850[1]
Synonyms
Drymaeus (Leiostracus) Albers, 1850 (unaccepted rank)

This genus is endemic to South America, occurring in Guyana, Suriname and Brazil.^[3][4][5]

Species

Species in the genus Leiostracus include:^[3][5]

• Leiostracus carnavalescus Simone & Salvador, 2016
• Leiostracus cinnamomeolineatus (Moricand, 1841)
• Leiostracus clouei (Pfeiffer, 1856)
• Leiostracus coxiranus (Potiez & Michaud, 1835)
• Leiostracus demerarensis (Pfeiffer, 1861)
• Leiostracus faerie Salvador & Cavallari, 2014
• Leiostracus ferreirai (Palma & Brito, 1974)
• Leiostracus fetidus Salvador & Cavallari, 2014
• Leiostracus goniotropis (Ancey, 1904)
• Leiostracus manoeli (Moricand, 1841)
• Leiostracus melanoscolops (Dohrn, 1882)
• Leiostracus obliquus (Reeve, 1849)
• Leiostracus omphaloides (Menke, 1846)
• Leiostracus onager (Beck, 1837)
• Leiostracus perlucidus (Spix, 1827)
• Leiostracus sarchochilus (Pfeiffer, 1837)
• Leiostracus subtuszonatus (Pilsbry, 1899)
• Leiostracus vimineus (Moricand, 1833)
• Leiostracus vitreus (Spix, 1827)
• Leiostracus vittatus (Spix, 1827)
• Leiostracus webberi Pilsbry, 1939^[6]

Species brought into synonymy

• Leiostracus coxeiranus (Moricand, 1836): synonym of Leiostracus coxiranus (Potiez & Michaud, 1835) (junior synonym)
• Leiostracus kugleri Forcart, 1954: synonym of Bostryx kugleri (Forcart, 1954) (original combination)
• Leiostracus polygrammus (Moricand, 1836): synonym of Drymaeus polygramma (S. Moricand, 1836)
• Leiostracus studeri (L. Pfeiffer, 1847): synonym of Drymaeus studeri (L. Pfeiffer, 1847)