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''Cylindrus'' is a
genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of air-breathing
land snail A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...
s,
terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial. 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 o ...
pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...
gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000  extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...
s in the family
Helicidae Helicidae is a large, diverse family of western Palaearctic, medium to large-sized, air-breathing land snails, sometimes called the "typical snails." It includes some of the largest European land snails, several species are common in anthropoge ...
, 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 venomous and predatory cone snails.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Conus Linnaeus, 1758. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&i ...
'' 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 ''Cylindrus obtusus'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the typical snails. This species is endemic to Austria. It lives on certain mountain tops in the Eastern Alps, in ...
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References

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