Aulacospira Moellendorff , 1890

Pall-Gergely, Barna, Schilthuizen, Menno, Oerstan, Aydin & Auffenberg, Kurt, 2019, A review of Aulacospira Moellendorff, 1890 and Pseudostreptaxis Moellendorff, 1890 in the Philippines (Gastropoda, Pupilloidea, Hypselostomatidae), ZooKeys 842, pp. 67-83 : 69

Genus Aulacospira Moellendorff, 1890

Aulacospira Möllendorff, 1890: 224.

Micropetasus Möllendorff, 1890: 224 ( Aulacospira sect.; type species: Helix scalatella Möllendorff, 1888.

Aulacospira Schileyko, 1998: 140.

Type species.

Helix scalatella Möllendorff, 1888, subsequent designation by Pilsbry (1895) [in Pilsbry 1894-1895]).

Diagnosis.

Shell triangular, low conical or lenticular, body whorl keeled, whorls sometimes scalariform, body whorl (sometimes only the last quarter whorl, sometimes all whorls) with subsutural furrow dorsally; protoconch smooth or spirally striated, teleoconch usually spirally striated and irregularly wrinkled; aperture adnate to penultimate whorl with weak parietal callus or free from penultimate whorl with continuous aperture; apertural barriers 0-5; umbilicus very narrow to moderately narrow.