Tomogeridae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Orthalicoidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Tomogeridae Jousseaume, 1877. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1057473 on 2025-08-16
Characteristics (Original description in French) "For M. Jousseaume, the genus Anostoma constitutes a family to which he gives the name TOMOGERIDAE, and which contains two perfectly distinct genera: one with an imperforate peristome, which is the genus Tomogeres of Montfort (Anostoma of Fischer, not Anostomus of Gronov); and the other with a perforate peristome, for which he creates the genus Tomogerina, whose type would be Anostoma globulosum Lam."
Tomogeres and Tomogerina are both now considered synonyms of Anastoma. Anostomag globulosum is a synonym of Anostoma ringens (Linnaeus, 1758)
Genera Anostoma Fischer von Waldheim, 1807 Biotocus Salgado & Leme, 1990 Clinispira Simone & Casati, 2013 Hyperaulax Pilsbry, 1897 Tomigerus Spix, 1827
Synonyms Angystoma Schumacher, 1817: synonym of Anostoma (Ringicella) J. E. Gray, 1847 represented as Anostoma Fischer von Waldheim, 1807 Bonnanius Jousseaume, 1900: synonym of Hyperaulax Pilsbry, 1897 (junior subjective synonym) Tomogeres Montfort, 1810: synonym of Anostoma Fischer von Waldheim, 1807 Tomogerina Jousseaume, 1877: synonym of Anostoma (Ringicella) J. E. Gray, 1847 represented as Anostoma Fischer von Waldheim, 1807
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