Myxostoma Troschel, 1847

Foon, Junn Kitt, 2016, Myxostoma petiverianum tenggolensis (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoridae), a new subspecies of land snail from Peninsular Malaysia, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 64, pp. 329-334 : 329-331

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Genus Myxostoma Troschel, 1847 View in CoL

Type species. Turbo petiverianus Wood, 1828 ; original designation by Troschel (1847: 44).

Remarks. Myxostoma is distinguished from other subdiscoidal confamilials by its medium to large shell size, peristomal extension along the periphery of the last whorl and its corneous (horny) operculum ( Troschel, 1847; Egorov, 2016).

References

Egorov RV (2016) A redescription and new distributional record of Myxostoma petiverianum (Wood, 1828) (Gastropoda, Cyclophoridae), poorly known species from South-East Asia. Conchylia, 46: 97 - 102.

Troschel FH (1847) Ueber die Gattungen der Cyclostomiden. Zeitschrift fur Malakozoologie, 4: 42 - 45.

Wood W (1828) Supplement to the index testaceologicus; or a catalogue of shells, British and foreign. William Wood, London, 59 pp.