Biology:Oestophora
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Short description: Genus of gastropods
| Oestophora | |
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| Oestophora barbula (Rossmässler, 1838) | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
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| Genus: | Oestophora Hesse, 1907[1]
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| Diversity[2] | |
| about 10 species | |
Oestophora is a genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Trissexodontidae.
Distribution
The distribution of the genus Oestophora includes western Iberian peninsula, north Africa and the Azores.[2]
Description
The shell is ribbed, with rounded or keeled whorls.[2] The apertural margin is reflected and thickened.[2]
Reproductive system: There is no flagellum, no penial papilla.[2] There is one small dart sac, one longer accessory sac separated from vaginal walls and vagina with 3 simple and long accessory (mucus) glands.[2]
The number of haploid chromosomes is 30.[3]
Species
Species within the genus Oestophoa include:
- Oestophora barbula (Rossmässler, 1838)[4]
- Oestophora barrelsi (Hovestadt & Ripken, 2015)[5]
- Oestophora calpeana (Morelet, 1854)[4]
- Oestophora dorotheae Hesse, 1930[4]
- Oestophora granesae Arrébola Burgos, 1998[4]
- Oestophora lusitanica (Pfeiffer, 1841) - type species[4]
- Oestophora ortizi Winter & Ripken, 1991[4]
- Oestophora silvae Ortiz de Zárate López, 1962[4]
- Oestophora tarnieri (Morelet, 1854)[4]
Synonyms:
- Oestophora turriplana is a synonym for Gittenbergeria turriplana (Morelet, 1845)
References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference [2]
- ↑ (in German) Hesse P. (1907). "Kritische Fragmente". Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 39(2): 69-77. Frankfurt am Main. page 76.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 "Genus summary for Oestophora". AnimalBase, last modified 17 July 2008, accessed 13 January 2011.
- ↑ Prieto C. E., Puente A. I, Altonaga K. & Gomez J. (1993). "Genital morphology of Caracolina lenticula (Michaud, 1831), with a new proposal of classification of helicodontoid genera (Pulmonata: Hygromioidea)". Malacologia 35(1): 63-77. page 73-74.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 "Species in genus Oestophora (n=8)". AnimalBase, accessed 12 January 2011.
- ↑ Hovestadt, Adriaan; E. J. Ripken, Theo (1 January 2015). "A new Oestophora (Gastropoda, Eupulmonata, Trissexodontidae) from Ilha da Berlenga, Portugal" (in en). Basteria 79 (1/3): 30–31. ISSN 0005-6219. https://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/644134. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
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