Eumecostylus

Eumecostylus, or flax snails, are a genus of very large, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Bothriembryontidae.

Species

Species within this genus include:

• Eumecostylus almiranta <small>(Clench, 1941)</small>
• Eumecostylus calus <small>(E. A. Smith, 1892)</small>
• Eumecostylus cleryi <small>(Petit de la Saussaye, 1850)</small>
• Eumecostylus cylindricus <small>(Fulton, 1907)</small>
• Eumecostylus foxi <small>(Clench, 1950)</small>
• Eumecostylus fraterculus <small>(B. Rensch, 1934)</small>
• Eumecostylus gallegoi <small>(Clench, 1941)</small>
• Eumecostylus gardneri <small>Delsaerdt, 2010</small>
• Eumecostylus hargravesi <small>(Cox, 1871)</small>
• Eumecostylus kirakiraensis (B. Rensch, 1934)
• Eumecostylus phenax <small>(Clapp, 1923)</small>
• Eumecostylus sanchristovalensis <small>(Cox, 1870)</small>
• Eumecostylus scottii <small>(Cox, 1873)</small>
• Eumecostylus uliginosus <small>(Kobelt, 1891)</small>
• Eumecostylus unicus <small>(B. Rensch, 1934)</small>
• Eumecostylus vicinus <small>(B. Rensch, 1934)</small>

References

• Neubert, E., Chérel-Mora C. & Bouchet P. (2009). Polytypy, clines, and fragmentation: The bulimes of New Caledonia revisited (Pulmonata, Orthalicoidea, Placostylidae). In P. Grancolas (ed.), Zoologia Neocaledonica 7. Biodiversity studies in New Caledonia. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 198: 37–131.
• Delsaerdt, A., 2010. Land snails on the Solomon Islands. Volume 1. Placostylidae

External links

• J. C.; Martens, E. von. (1860). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet von Joh. Christ. Albers. Ed. 2. Pp. i-xviii, 1-359. Leipzig: Engelman
• Clench, W.J. (1941). The Land Mollusca of the Solomon Islands (Succineidae, Bulimulidae and Partulidae). American Museum Novitates. 1129: 1-21.