''Cylindrus'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

of air-breathing land snails,

terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth. Terrestrial may also refer to: * Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...

pulmonate gastropod

mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is es ...

s in the family

Helicidae Helicidae is a large, diverse family of small to large, air-breathing land snails, sometimes called the "typical snails." A number of species in this family are valued as food items, including ''Cornu aspersum'' (formerly ''Helix aspersa'') the ...

, the typical snails. According to some authors, the name ''Cylindrus'' Fitzinger, 1833 was homonymous with the cone snail genus ''Cylindrus'' Batsch, 1789, an alternate representation of ''

Conus ''Conus'' is a genus of predatory sea snails, or cone snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conidae.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Conus Linnaeus, 1758. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species ...

'' Linnaeus, 1758 and ''Cylindrus'' Deshayes, 1824 . The counter argument of others was, that these names have never been in use. As a result, an application to the

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) is an organization dedicated to "achieving stability and sense in the scientific naming of animals". Founded in 1895, it currently comprises 26 commissioners from 20 countries. Orga ...

(ICZN) for the conservation of the name ''Cylindrus'' Fitzinger, 1833.Gittenberger, E. & Bank, R. (2015): case 3683 ''Cylindrus Fitzinger'', 1833 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, HELICIDAE): proposed conservation. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 72(4)
/ref> was made. In January 2019 the ICZN decided to conserve the name ''Cylindrus'' Fitzinger, 1833.Opinion 2422 (Case 3683) – ''Cylindrus'' Fitzinger, 1833 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Helicidae): usage conserved
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Species

The genus ''Cylindrus'' contains the following species: * '' Cylindrus obtusus''

References

Gastropod genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Helicidae-stub