Auriculastra is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Pythiinae of the family Ellobiidae, the salt marsh snails.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Auriculastra Martens, 1880. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=574835 on 2020-06-02
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. Quadras, J. F.; Möllendorff, O. F. von. (1895). Diagnoses specierum novarum ex insulis Philippinis. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 27: 73–88, 105–121, 137–149
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: Auriculastra acuta Connolly, 1922 † Auriculastra aquensis (Tournouër, 1872) † Auriculastra badeniensis Kókay, 2006 † Auriculastra biplicata (Grateloup, 1828) Auriculastra brachyspira (Möllendorff, 1894) Auriculastra catonis (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1899) † Auriculastra dumasi (Cossmann, 1895) Auriculastra duplicata (L. Pfeiffer, 1854) Auriculastra elongata (Küster, 1845) Auriculastra gassiesi (Morelet, 1882) Auriculastra hyalina (Morelet, 1883) Auriculastra oparica (H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854) † Auriculastra ovata (Briart & Cornet, 1887) Auriculastra pusilla (H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854) Auriculastra quadrasi (Möllendorff, 1895) Auriculastra radiolata (Morelet, 1860) Auriculastra saccata (L. Pfeiffer, 1856) Auriculastra semiplicata (H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854) Auriculastra siamensis (Brandt, 1974) Auriculastra subula (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
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(Jickeli, 1874) Auriculastra bronnii (R. A. Philippi, 1846): synonym of Allochroa bronnii (R. A. Philippi, 1846) (superseded combination) Auriculastra incrassata (H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854): synonym of Auriculastra elongata (Küster, 1845) Auriculastra nana Haas, 1950: synonym of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)
References
Nomenclator Zoologicus info Smith B.J. (1992). Non-marine Mollusca. In: Houston W.W.K. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia, volume 8. xii + 405 pp. 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 Martens E. von. (1880). Mollusken. Pp. 179-353, pl. 19-22 In K. Moebius, F. Richters & E. von Martens, Beiträge zur Meeresfauna der Insel Mauritius und der Seychellen. Berlin: Gutmann