Biology:Glyptoconus

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Short description: Genus of gastropods


Glyptoconus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Class:
(unranked):
Superfamily:
Family:
Subfamily:
Streptaxinae
Genus:
Glyptoconus

Möllendorff, 1894[1]

Glyptoconus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.[2]

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Glyptoconus includes:

  • Busuangga Island, the Philippines[2]

Species

Species within the genus Glyptoconus include:

  • Glyptoconus mirus Möllendorff - the type species of the genus Glyptoconus[1]

See also

The conodont genus name Glyptoconus Kennedy, 1981 has been replaced by Colaptoconus in 1994.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Quadras J. F. & Möllendorff O. F. (1894). "Diagnoses specierum novarum ex insulus Philippinis". Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 26: 81-104. page 90.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of Diaphera Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 1-16. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00598.x.
  3. Colaptoconus (Conodonta), a replacement name for Glyptoconus Kennedy, 1981, non Glyptoconus von Moellendorff, 1894. David J. Kennedy, Journal of Paleontology, November 1994, volume 68, issue 6 (link)

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