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

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 led to an application to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature for the conservation of the name Cylindrus Fitzinger, 1833. ^[2]

Species

The genus Cylindrus contains the following species:

Cylindrus obtusus

References

^ Fitzinger L. (1833). Beitr. Landesk. Oesterr. Enns. (Ver. Vaterl. Gesch. Wien), 3: 107.
^ Gittenberger, E. & Bank, R. (2015): case 3683 Cylindrus Fitzinger, 1833 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, HELICIDAE): proposed conservation. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 72(4)

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[1] Fitzinger L. (1833). Beitr. Landesk. Oesterr. Enns. (Ver. Vaterl. Gesch. Wien), 3: 107.

[Gittenberger-2] Gittenberger, E. & Bank, R. (2015): case 3683 Cylindrus Fitzinger, 1833 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, HELICIDAE): proposed conservation. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 72(4)

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