Anostoma baileyi

Anostoma baileyi
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:	Odontostomidae
Genus:	Anostoma
Species:	A. baileyi
Binomial name
	Anostoma baileyi; Solem, 1956

Anostoma baileyi is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Odontostomidae.

Distribution

This species occurs in Brazil.^[2]

Shell description

The shell has 5-5.25 whorls.^[1]

The width of adult shells is 29.6-32.3 mm, the height is 15.1-17.2 mm.^[1]

The main differences between the shell of this species and the similar shell of Anostoma rossi are that this shell has no spiral sculpture and the aperture is more elongated.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Solem A. 1956. Non marine Mollusca from Salobra, Mato Grosso, Brazil and a collection of South Brazilian Artemon. Notulae Naturae, Philadelphia, 287: 1-14. (googlebooks)
^ Norma Campos Salgado & Arnaldo C. dos Santos Coelho. 2003. Moluscos terrestres do Brasil (Gastrópodes operculados ou não, exclusive Veronicellidae, Milacidae e Limacidae). Rev. Biol. Trop. 51 (Suppl. 3): 149-189. (in Portuguese with English abstract)

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[Solem-1] Solem A. 1956. Non marine Mollusca from Salobra, Mato Grosso, Brazil and a collection of South Brazilian Artemon. Notulae Naturae, Philadelphia, 287: 1-14. (googlebooks)

[2] Norma Campos Salgado & Arnaldo C. dos Santos Coelho. 2003. Moluscos terrestres do Brasil (Gastrópodes operculados ou não, exclusive Veronicellidae, Milacidae e Limacidae). Rev. Biol. Trop. 51 (Suppl. 3): 149-189. (in Portuguese with English abstract)

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