Oestophora
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Oestophora is a genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Trissexodontidae.
Distribution
The distribution of the genus Oestophora includes western Iberian Peninsula, north Africa and the Azores.[1]
Description
The shell is ribbed, with rounded or keeled whorls.[1] The apertural margin is reflected and thickened.[1]
Reproductive system
There is no flagellum, or penial papilla.[1] There is one small dart sac, one longer accessory sac separated from vaginal walls and a vagina with three simple and long accessory (mucous) glands.[1]
The number of haploid chromosomes is 30.[2]
Species
Species within the genus Oestophoa include:
- Oestophora barbula (Rossmässler, 1838)[3]
- Oestophora barrelsi (Hovestadt & Ripken, 2015)[4]
- Oestophora calpeana (Morelet, 1854)[3]
- Oestophora dorotheae Hesse, 1930[3]
- Oestophora granesae Arrébola Burgos, 1998[3]
- Oestophora lusitanica (Pfeiffer, 1841) - type species[3]
- Oestophora ortizi Winter & Ripken, 1991[3]
- Oestophora silvae Ortiz de Zárate López, 1962[3]
- Oestophora tarnieri (Morelet, 1854)[3]
Synonyms:
- Oestophora turriplana is a synonym for Gittenbergeria turriplana (Morelet, 1845)
References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference [1]
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- ↑ a b c d e f "Genus summary for Oestophora". AnimalBase, last modified 17 July 2008, accessed 13 January 2011.
- ↑ Prieto C. E., Puente A. I, Altonaga K. & Gomez J. (1993). "Genital morphology of Caracolina lenticula (Michaud, 1831), with a new proposal of classification of helicodontoid genera (Pulmonata: Hygromioidea)". Malacologia 35(1): 63-77. page 73-74.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h "Species in genus Oestophora (n=8)". AnimalBase, accessed 12 January 2011.
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