Biology:Glyptostoma

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Short description: Genus of gastropods

Glyptostoma
GlyptosomaGabriel.jpg
Three views of a shell of Glyptostoma gabrielense
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Glyptostoma

Bland & Binney, 1873

Glyptostoma is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Megomphicidae.

These are large (to about 40 mm or 1.5 inches in diameter) dark brown snails, much shorter than wide. They are found in hilly areas, or low mountains, along the Pacific coast of North America, from California to Baja California.[1]

Species

Species and subspecies within the genus Glyptostoma include:[1][2]

  • Glyptostoma gabrielense Pilsbry, 1938
  • Glyptostoma newberryanum (Binney, 1858)
    • Glyptostoma newberryanum depressum Byant, 1902

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Pilsbry, Henry A. 1939. Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Monograph 3, vol. 1(1): 567-573.
  2. Glyptostoma at ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System); accessed 12 Jan. 2008.

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