Menestho

For the mythical figure, see Menestho (mythology).

Menestho is a genus of very small sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusks, or micromollusks.^[1]

Menestho
Apertural view of the shell of Menestho felix
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Family:	Pyramidellidae
Tribe:	Chrysallidini
Genus:	Menestho Möller, 1842
Type species
Menestho albula Fabricius, O., 1780
Species
See text
Synonyms
Odostomia (Menestho) Möller, 1842

Shell description

The original description by Möller (1842) is brief and in Latin: "Animal pede elongato, angusto; ore simplici, membrana linguali destituto; tentaculis brevioribus, crassiusculis, oculos perparvos ad basin internum ferentibus. Operculo pauco-spirato. Testa conico-turrita."

Life habits

Little is known about the biology of the members of this genus. As is true of most members of the Pyramidellidae sensu lato, they are most likely to be ectoparasites.

Species

Species within the genus Menestho include:

• Menestho acuminata Preston, 1908
• Menestho akkeshiensis Habe, 1958
• Menestho albula (Fabricius, 1780) (Type species) (as Turbo albulus)
• Menestho beermanae Jong & Coomans, 1988
• Menestho cingulitissima Nomura, 1937
• Menestho exarata A. Adams, 1861
• Menestho felix (Dall & Bartsch, 1906) ^[2]
• Menestho hypocurta (Dall & Bartsch, 1909)
• Menestho kesennumensis Nomura, 1938
• Menestho kwantoensis Nomura, 1938
• Menestho sexsulcata Nomura, 1936
• Menestho shataii Nomura, 1936
• Menestho suavis Nomura, 1936
• Menestho truncatula (Odhner, 1915)

Species brought into synonymy

• Menestho amilda Dall & Bartsch, 1909: synonym of Odostomia amilda Dall & Bartsch, 1909
• Menestho beauforti Jacot, A.P., 1921: synonym of Boonea impressa (Say, T., 1822)
• Menestho chilensis Dall & Bartsch, 1909: synonym of Odostomia chilensis Dall & Bartsch, 1909
• Menestho cingulittissima [sic] : synonym of Menestho cingulitissima Nomura, 1937
• Menestho diaphana (Jeffreys, 1848): synonym of Ondina diaphana (Jeffreys, 1848)
• Menestho divisa (J. Adams, 1797): synonym of Ondina divisa (Adams J., 1797)
• Menestho dollfusi Locard, 1886: synonym of Euparthenia humboldti (Risso, 1826)
• Menestho exarata A. Adams, 1861: synonym of Menestho exaratissima (Dall & Bartsch, 1906)
• Menestho grijalvae (Baker, Hanna & Strong, 1928): synonym of Odostomia grijalvae Baker, Hanna & Strong, 1928
• Menestho humboldti (Risso, 1826): synonym of Euparthenia humboldti (Risso, 1826)
• Menestho morseana Bartsch, 1909: synonym of Menestho albula (Fabricius, 1780)
• Menestho tenuicula F. Nordsieck, 1972: synonym of Odostomia erjaveciana Brusina, 1869