Odontartemon

Genus of gastropods

Odontartemon
Shell of Odontartemon dejectus (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Streptaxidae
Genus: Odontartemon
L. Pfeiffer, 1856[1]
Type species
Helix dejecta Moricand, 1836
Synonyms

Streptaxis (Odontartemon) L. Pfeiffer, 1856· accepted, alternate representation

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

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Odontartemon includes:

  • West Africa[2]
  • South America (Brazil)

Species

Species within the genus Odontartemon include:

  • Odontartemon bidens (Möllendorff, 1883)
  • Odontartemon dejectus (Moricand, 1836)
  • Odontartemon paulus (Gude, 1896)
  • Odontartemon schomburgi Yen, 1939
Species brought into synonymy
  • Odontartemon balingensis Tomlin, 1948: synonym of Oophana balingensis (Tomlin, 1948) (original combination)
  • Odontartemon fuchsianus (Gredler, 1881): synonym of Indoartemon fuchsianus (Gredler, 1881) (unaccepted combination)

References

  1. ^ (in German) Pfeiffer (1856). "Versuch einer Anordnung der Heliceen nach natürlichen Gruppen". Malakozoologische Blätter 2: 112-185. page 172.
  2. ^ a b 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.
  • Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
  • Ancey, C. F. (1884). Sur les divisions proposées dans le genre Streptaxis. Le Naturaliste. 6(50): 399
  • Rowson, B. (2010). Systematics and diversity of the Streptaxidae (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora). Ph.D. thesis, University of Wales, Cardiff. Pp. i–vii + 1–307
Taxon identifiers
Odontartemon


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