Plekocheilus

Plekocheilus

Apertual view of the shell of Plekocheilus marmoratus.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Orthalicoidea
Family:	Orthalicidae
Subfamily:	Bulimulinae
Genus:	Plekocheilus Guilding, 1828^[1]

Plekocheilus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Orthalicidae.

Contents

1 Species
2 References
3 Further reading
4 External links

Species

Species within the genus Plekocheilus include:

subgenus Plekocheilus Guilding, 1828

Plekocheilus aurissileni (Born, 1780) - photo of radula
Plekocheilus vlceki Breure & Schlögl, 2010^[2]

subgenus Eurytus Albers, 1850^[3]

Plekocheilus breweri Breure & Schlögl, 2010^[2]

subgenus ?

Plekocheilus marmoratus (Dunker, 1844)

References

^ Guilding L. (1827). Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 15(2): 512.
^ ^a ^b Beaure A. S. H. & Schlögl J. 2010). "Additional notes on Orthalicidae from the Chimantá massif, Venezuelan Guayana, with descriptions of new species of Plekocheilus Guilding, 1828 (Mollusca: Gastropoda)". Zootaxa 2416: 51-60. abstract.
^ Albers (1850). Die Heliceen, page 169.

Further reading

Breure A. S. H. (1975). "Caribbean land molluscs: Bulimulidae, II. Plekocheilus and Naesiotus". Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 46: 71-93, pls. 6-8, tables 8-14.

External links

Plekocheilus at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) website.