Gonostomopsis

Gonostomopsis is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Pleurodontinae of the family Pleurodontidae.[1]

Gonostomopsis
Shell of Gonostomopsis auridens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Superorder:	Eupulmonata
Order:	Stylommatophora
Infraorder:	Helicoidei
Superfamily:	Helicoidea
Family:	Pleurodontidae
Genus:	Gonostomopsis Pilsbry, 1889
Synonyms
Chrysodon Ancey, 1887 (Replaced by Gonostomopsis on the assumption that it was preoccupied by Chrysodon Oken, 1815, which however was published in a work placed on the Official Index)

Genera

• Gonostomopsis auridens (Rang, 1834) (synonym: Helix auridens Rang, 1834, Pleurodonte auridens (Rang, 1834))

Description

The shell is narrowly umbilicated, rather thin, opaque, hirsute. The spire is depressed, body-whorl depressed, rounded at periphery. The Aperture is as high as wide and trilobate-lunar. The peristome is narrowly expanded, the outer and basal margins each with one tooth. Type P. auridens.[2]

Distribution

This genus occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Martinique.

References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Gonostomopsis Pilsbry, 1889. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996649 on 2021-01-03
2. Manual of conchology, structural and systematic ser. 2 v.9 (1894)

• A.A. SCHILEYKO (2006, Treatise on recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs. Part 13. - Ruthenica, Supplement 2: 1765–1906);
• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017

External links

• MNHN, Paris: syntype
• Sei, Makiri & Robinson, David & Geneva, Anthony & Rosenberg, Gary. (2017). Doubled helix: Sagdoidea is the overlooked sister group of Helicoidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 1-32. 10.1093