Cylindrus

Cylindrus
Apertural view of a shell of Cylindrus obtusus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Helicoidea
Family:	Helicidae
Subfamily:	Ariantinae
Genus:	Cylindrus Fitzinger, 1833[1]

Cylindrus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.

Cylindrus Fitzinger, 1833, is homonymous with the cone snail genus Cylindrus Batsch, 1789, an alternate representation of Conus Linnaeus, 1758. This is a complex story that is going to require an application to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (April 2012)

Species

The genus Cylindrus contains the following species:

• Cylindrus obtusus

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