Odontostomus

Odontostomus is a genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Odontostomidae.^[2]

Odontostomus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Odontostomidae
Genus:	Odontostomus Gray, 1847[1]
Synonyms
Bulimus (Odontostomus) H. Beck, 1837 superseded combination Clausilia (Macrodontes) Swainson, 1840 junior subjective synonym Macrodontes Swainson, 1840 junior subjective synonym Macrodontopsis Thiele, 1931 junior subjective synonym Odontostomus (Macrodontes) Swainson, 1840 junior subjective synonym Odontostomus (Macrodontopsis) Thiele, 1931 Odontostomus (Odontostomus) H. Beck, 1837 alternative representation

Odontostomus is the type genus for the tribe Odontostomini.^[3]

Distribution

This genus of snails occurs in Brazil.

Species

Species in the genus Odontostomus include:^[4]

• Odontostomus dautzenbergianus Pilsbry, 1898
• Odontostomus degeneratus Pilsbry, 1899
• Odontostomus fasciatus (Pfeiffer, 1869)
• Odontostomus gargantua (Rang, 1831)
• Odontostomus grayanus (Pfeiffer, 1845)
• Odontostomus koenigswaldi (Thiele, 1906)
• Odontostomus kuhnholtzianus (Crosse, 1870)
• Odontostomus odontostoma (Sowerby, 1824)
• Odontostomus paulista Pilsbry & Ihering, 1898
• Odontostomus sexdentatus (Spix, 1827)^{[citation needed]}
• Odontostomus simplex (Thiele, 1906)
• Odontostomus tenuisculptus J. J. Parodiz, 1963

Synonyms

• Odontostomus gemellatus Ancey, 1901: synonym of Cyclodontina gemellata (Ancey, 1901) (superseded combination)
• Odontostomus leucotremus (Beck, 1837): synonym of Burringtonia leucotrema (Beck, 1837)
• Odontostomus squarrosus Ancey, 1904: synonym of Cyclodontina squarrosa (Ancey, 1904) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
• Odontostomus thielei (Pilsbry, 1930): synonym of Odontostomus gargantua (A. Férussac, 1821)