Tomogeridae
Family of gastropods
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Tomogeridae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Orthalicoidea.[1]
| Tomogeridae | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Helicina |
| Superfamily: | Orthalicoidea |
| Family: | Tomogeridae Jousseaume, 1877 |
Characteristics
(Original description in French) "For M. Jousseaume, the genus Anostoma constitutes a family to which he gives the name TOMOGERIDAE, and which contains two perfectly distinct genera: one with an imperforate peristome, which is the genus Tomogeres of Montfort (Anostoma of Fischer, not Anostomus of Gronov); and the other with a perforate peristome, for which he creates the genus Tomogerina, whose type would be Anostoma globulosum Lam."[2]
Tomogeres and Tomogerina are both now considered synonyms of Anastoma. Anostomag globulosum is a synonym of Anostoma ringens (Linnaeus, 1758)
Genera
- Anostoma Fischer von Waldheim, 1807
- Biotocus Salgado & Leme, 1990
- Clinispira Simone & Casati, 2013
- Hyperaulax Pilsbry, 1897
- Tomigerus Spix, 1827
- Synonyms
- Angystoma Schumacher, 1817: synonym of Anostoma (Ringicella) J. E. Gray, 1847 represented as Anostoma Fischer von Waldheim, 1807
- Bonnanius Jousseaume, 1900: synonym of Hyperaulax Pilsbry, 1897 (junior subjective synonym)
- Tomogeres Montfort, 1810: synonym of Anostoma Fischer von Waldheim, 1807
- Tomogerina Jousseaume, 1877: synonym of Anostoma (Ringicella) J. E. Gray, 1847 represented as Anostoma Fischer von Waldheim, 1807
