Leiostracus is a genus of small to medium-sized neotropical, air-breathing land snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in family Simpulopsidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Leiostracus Albers, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=877282 on 2020-05-04
This genus is endemic to South America, occurring in Guyana, Suriname and Brazil.Simone, L. R. L. (2006). Land and Freshwater Molluscs of Brazil. EGB, Fapesp. São Paulo, Brazil. 390 pp. .
Species Species in the genus Leiostracus include:
Leiostracus carnavalescus Simone & Salvador, 2016 Leiostracus cinnamomeolineatus (Moricand, 1841) Leiostracus clouei (Pfeiffer, 1856) Leiostracus coxiranus (Potiez & Michaud, 1835) Leiostracus demerarensis (Pfeiffer, 1861) Leiostracus faerie Salvador & Cavallari, 2014 Leiostracus ferreirai (Palma & Brito, 1974) Leiostracus fetidus Salvador & Cavallari, 2014 Leiostracus goniotropis (Ancey, 1904) Leiostracus manoeli (Moricand, 1841) Leiostracus melanoscolops (Dohrn, 1882) Leiostracus obliquus (Reeve, 1849) Leiostracus omphaloides (Menke, 1846) Leiostracus onager (Beck, 1837) Leiostracus perlucidus (Spix, 1827) Leiostracus sarchochilus (Pfeiffer, 1837) Leiostracus subtuszonatus (Pilsbry, 1899) Leiostracus vimineus (Moricand, 1833) Leiostracus vitreus (Spix, 1827) Leiostracus vittatus (Spix, 1827) Leiostracus webberi Pilsbry, 1939 Species brought into synonymy Leiostracus coxeiranus (Moricand, 1836): synonym of Leiostracus coxiranus (Potiez & Michaud, 1835) (junior synonym) Leiostracus kugleri Forcart, 1954: synonym of Bostryx kugleri (Forcart, 1954) (original combination) Leiostracus polygrammus (Moricand, 1836): synonym of Drymaeus polygramma (S. Moricand, 1836) Leiostracus studeri (L. Pfeiffer, 1847): synonym of Drymaeus studeri (L. Pfeiffer, 1847)
References
Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
External links
Albers, J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Berlin: Enslin. 262 pp