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Eostrobilops

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

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Eostrobilops
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Strobilopsidae
Genus: Eostrobilops
Pilsbry, 19271

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

Distribution

This species of land snail occurs in Japan, Korea and China.1

Species

The genus Eostrobilops includes the following species:

References

References

  1. Pilsbry H. A. (1927). Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Second series: Pulmonata. Volume 28. Geographic Distribution of Pupillidae; Strobilopsidae, Valloniidae and Pleurodiscidae. Conchological department Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia. page 18; 42-46.
  2. Pilsbry H. A. (1908). "Two genera of land snails new to Japan and Korea". The Conchological magazine, Kyoto, 2(8): 39-42.
  3. (in Japanese) Matsumura I. & Minato H. (1998). "大阪府北部で採集されたナニワクチミゾガイ(新亜種) Eostrobilops nipponica reikoae n. subsp. (Pulmonata : Strobilopsidae) from the Northern Region of Osaka, Japan". The Japanese journal of malacology. Venus 57(1): 39-47. CiNii
Further reading

Further reading

  • (in Japanese) Minato H. (1982). 日本のクチミゾガイ類. "Eostrobilops and Enteroplax from Japan (Strobilopsidae)". 日本貝類学会研究連絡誌 The Chiribotan. CiNii.