''Plectostylus'' is a genus of
gastropods
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and from the land. Ther ...
belonging to the subfamily Prestonellinae of the family
Bothriembryontidae
Bothriembryontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Orthalicoidea.
Taxonomy
This family has been named Placostylidae and had no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Plectostylus H. Beck, 1837. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995779 on 2022-01-26]
The species of this genus are found in Southern America.
Species
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Plectostylus broderipii''
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Plectostylus chilensis''
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Plectostylus coquimbensis''
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Plectostylus coturnix''
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Plectostylus elegans''
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Plectostylus elongata''
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Plectostylus granulosus''
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Plectostylus mariae''
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Plectostylus moestai''
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Plectostylus ochsenii''
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Plectostylus peruvianus''
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Plectostylus prolatus''
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Plectostylus punctulifer''
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Plectostylus reflexus''
;Synonyms:
* ''Plectostylus apolinari''
Pilsbry, 1935: synonym of ''Plekocheilus episcopalis corticosus''
(G. B. Sowerby III, 1895) (junior synonym)
* ''Plectostylus delicatus''
Pilsbry, 1935: synonym of ''
Plekocheilus delicatus''
(Pilsbry, 1935) (original combination)
* ''Plectostylus variegatus''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1842): synonym of ''
Plectostylus broderipii''
(G. B. Sowerby I, 1832) (junior synonym)
* ''Plectostylus virgatus''
Pilsbry, 1935: synonym of ''
Plekocheilus pulicarius''
(Reeve, 1848) (junior synonymy)
References
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
External links
Beck, H. (1837). Index molluscorum praesentis aevi musei principis augustissimi Christiani Frederici. 1-124. HafniaeBreure, A. S. H. & Araujo, R. (2017). The Neotropical land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) collected by the “Comisión Científica del Pacífico.”. PeerJ. 5, e3065
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Bothriembryontidae
Taxa described in 1837