Gonidomus

Gonidomus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Streptaxoidea
Family: Streptaxidae
Subfamily: Orthogibbinae
Genus: Gonidomus
Swainson, 1840[1]

Gonidomus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.

Distribution

The genus Gonidomus was endemic to Mauritius and it is now extinct.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Gonidomus include:

References

  1. Swainson (1840). Treat. Malacol. 166, 332.
  2. 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.
  3. Griffiths O. (1996). Gonidomus newtoni. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  4. Griffiths O. (1996). Gonidomus sulcatus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.


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