Clostophis

Clostophis is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hypselostomatinae of the family Gastrocoptidae.

Clostophis
Shell of Clostophis infantilis (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Infraorder:	Pupilloidei
Superfamily:	Pupilloidea
Family:	Gastrocoptidae
Genus:	Clostophis Benson, 1860
Type species
Clostophis sankeyi Benson, 1860
Synonyms
Montapiculus Panha & J. B. Burch, 1999 (junior synonym)

Species

• Clostophis incurvus Páll-Gergely & Vermeulen, 2020
• Clostophis infantilis Páll-Gergely, 2020
• Clostophis koilobasis Páll-Gergely & Vermeulen, 2020
• Clostophis multiformis Páll-Gergely & A. Reischütz, 2020
• Clostophis neglectus (van Benthem Jutting, 1961)
• Clostophis obtusus Páll-Gergely & Grego, 2020
• Clostophis platytrochus Páll-Gergely & Hunyadi, 2020
• Clostophis proboscideus (Panha & J. B. Burch, 1999)
• Clostophis sankeyi Benson, 1860
• Clostophis stochi (Páll-Gergely & Jochum, 2017)

References

• Panha, S. & Burch, J. B. (1999). Two new genera of pupillid land snails from Thailand (Pulmonata: Pupillidae: Gastrocoptinae). Malacological Review. 31/32(2): 143–153.

External links

• Benson, W. H. (1860). On Clostophis and Rhiostoma, new Burmese genera of land-shells. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (3) 5(26): 95-97.
• Páll-Gergely, B., Hunyadi, A., Grego, J., Reischütz, A., Buczkó, K. & Vermeulen, J. J. (2020). Clostophis Benson, 1860, is not a monotypic diplommatinid but a speciose hypselostomatid (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata), with descriptions of six new species. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 68: 350–368.
• Kobelt W. (1902). Das Tierreich. Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen. 16. Lieferung. Mollusca. Cyclophoridae. Das Tierreich. XXXIX + 662 pp., 1 map. [July]. Berlin (R. Friedländer).