''Leiostracus'' is a
genus
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of small to medium-sized
neotropical
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Definition
In biogeogra ...
, 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,
pulmonate
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gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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s in family
Simpulopsidae
Simpulopsidae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of air-breathing land snails, Terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod Mollusca, molluscs in the superfamily Orthalicoidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Leiostracus Albers, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=877282 on 2020-05-04]
This genus is
endemic
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to
South America
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, occurring in
Guyana
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,
Suriname
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and Brazil.
[Simone, L. R. L. (2006). ''Land and Freshwater Molluscs of Brazil''. EGB, Fapesp. São Paulo, Brazil. 390 pp. .]
Species
Species in the genus ''Leiostracus'' include:
* ''
Leiostracus carnavalescus''
Simone & Salvador, 2016
* ''
Leiostracus cinnamomeolineatus''
( Moricand, 1841)
* ''
Leiostracus clouei''
(Pfeiffer, 1856)
* ''
Leiostracus coxiranus''
(Potiez & Michaud, 1835)
* ''
Leiostracus demerarensis''
(Pfeiffer, 1861)
* ''
Leiostracus faerie''
Salvador & Cavallari, 2014
* ''
Leiostracus ferreirai''
(Palma & Brito, 1974)
* ''
Leiostracus fetidus''
Salvador & Cavallari, 2014
* ''
Leiostracus goniotropis''
(Ancey, 1904)
* ''
Leiostracus manoeli''
( Moricand, 1841)
* ''
Leiostracus melanoscolops''
(Dohrn, 1882)
* ''
Leiostracus obliquus''
(Reeve, 1849)
* ''
Leiostracus omphaloides''
(Menke, 1846)
* ''
Leiostracus onager''
(Beck, 1837)
* ''
Leiostracus perlucidus''
(Spix, 1827)
* ''
Leiostracus sarchochilus''
(Pfeiffer, 1837)
* ''
Leiostracus subtuszonatus'' (Pilsbry, 1899)
* ''
Leiostracus vimineus''
( Moricand, 1833)
* ''
Leiostracus vitreus''
(Spix, 1827)
* ''
Leiostracus vittatus''
(Spix, 1827)
* ''
Leiostracus webberi''
Pilsbry, 1939
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Leiostracus coxeiranus''
( Moricand, 1836): synonym of ''Leiostracus coxiranus''
(Potiez & Michaud, 1835) (junior synonym)
* ''Leiostracus kugleri''
Forcart, 1954: synonym of ''
Bostryx kugleri''
(Forcart, 1954) (original combination)
* ''Leiostracus polygrammus''
( Moricand, 1836): synonym of ''
Drymaeus polygramma''
(S. Moricand, 1836)
* ''Leiostracus studeri''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1847): synonym of ''
Drymaeus studeri''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1847)
References
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
External links
Albers, J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Berlin: Enslin. 262 pp
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Gastropod genera