Odontostomus is a genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Odontostomidae.Breure A. S. H. & Ablett J. D. (2012) "Annotated type catalogue of the Bothriembryontidae and Odontostomidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London". ZooKeys 182: 1-70. .
Odontostomus is the type genus for the tribe Odontostomini.
Distribution This genus of snails occurs in Brazil.
Species Species in the genus Odontostomus include: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) Odontostomus dautzenbergianus Pilsbry, 1898 Odontostomus degeneratus Pilsbry, 1899 Odontostomus fasciatus (Pfeiffer, 1869) Odontostomus gargantua (Rang, 1831) Odontostomus grayanus (Pfeiffer, 1845) Odontostomus koenigswaldi (Thiele, 1906) Odontostomus kuhnholtzianus (Crosse, 1870) Odontostomus odontostoma (Sowerby, 1824) Odontostomus paulista Pilsbry & Ihering, 1898 Odontostomus sexdentatus (Spix, 1827) Odontostomus simplex (Thiele, 1906) Odontostomus tenuisculptus J. J. Parodiz, 1963
Synonyms Odontostomus gemellatus Ancey, 1901: synonym of Cyclodontina gemellata (Ancey, 1901) (superseded combination) Odontostomus leucotremus (Beck, 1837): synonym of Burringtonia leucotrema (Beck, 1837) Odontostomus squarrosus Ancey, 1904: synonym of Cyclodontina squarrosa (Ancey, 1904) (unaccepted > superseded combination) Odontostomus thielei (Pilsbry, 1930): synonym of Odontostomus gargantua (A. Férussac, 1821)
References
Further reading Baker, H.B. 1947. Odontostomus odontostomus and Cyclodontina pantagruelina. The Nautilus 60: 106. Pilsbry, H.A. 1898. Notes on the genus Odontostomus. The Nautilus, Philadelphia, 12: 57–58. Pilsbry, H.A. 1898–1899. New species of Odontostomus from Brazil and Argentina. Proceedingss of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 50: 471–472, 473-474 (1899).