Plectostylus Beck, 1837

Araya, Juan Francisco & Catalan, Ricardo, 2014, A review of the non-bulimulid terrestrial Mollusca from the Region of Atacama, northern Chile, ZooKeys 398, pp. 33-51 : 34

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scientific name

Plectostylus Beck, 1837
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Genus Plectostylus Beck, 1837

Type species.

Bulimus peruvianus Bruguière, 1789, by subsequent designation ( Gray 1847).

The genus is extant and distributed in Chile and Argentina, its type species is endemic to Chile. All the species have a minutely rugose, granulate or striate protoconch.