Auriculastra is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Pythiinae of the family Ellobiidae, the salt marsh snails.

Description

(Described in Latin as Cylindrotis) The shell is almost cylindrical in shape. The aperture is narrow. The peristome is straight and blunt, and it is thickened within by a lip. There is a single parietal lamella. The columella is strongly twisted and truncated, and there are two palatal folds.

Distribution

Species of this marine genus occur in the Indo-Pacific Ocean from Mauritius and the Comores to Southeast Asia and Indonesia, New Guinea, the Philippines and also New Caledonia and Australia (Queensland).

Species

Species in the genus Auriculastra include:

Species brought into synonymy

  • Auriculastra amplicata (Jickeli, 1874): synonym of Laemodonta amplicata] Jickeli, 1874 synonym of Pedipes amplicatus (Jickeli, 1874)
  • Auriculastra bronnii (R. A. Philippi, 1846): synonym of Allochroa bronnii (R. A. Philippi, 1846) (superseded combination)
  • Auriculastra incrassata (H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854): synonym of Auriculastra elongata (Küster, 1845)
  • Auriculastra nana Haas, 1950: synonym of Microtralia ovulum (Pfeiffer, 1840)
  • Auriculastra nevillei (Morelet, 1882): synonym of Auriculastra radiolata (Morelet, 1860) (junior synonym)
  • Auriculastra oblonga (Jickeli, 1874): synonym of Laemodonta oblonga Jickeli, 1874
  • Auriculastra pellucens (Menke, 1828): synonym of Ellobium dominicense (A. Férussac, 1821) (junior subjective synonym)
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  • Kókay, J. (2006). Nonmarine mollusc fauna from the Lower and Middle Miocene, Bakony Mts., W Hungary. Geologica Hungarica, Series Palaeontologica. 56, 1-196.

External links

  • Möllendorff, O. F. von. (1898). . Abhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Görlitz. 22: 160.
  • Brandt, R.A.M. (1974). (PDF). Archiv für Molluskenkunde: 1–423.