Gonostomopsis


Gonostomopsis is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Pleurodontinae of the family Pleurodontidae.

Genera

Description

The shell is narrowly umbilicated, rather thin, opaque, hirsute. The spire is depressed, body-whorl depressed, rounded at periphery. The Aperture is as high as wide and trilobate-lunar. The peristome is narrowly expanded, the outer and basal margins each with one tooth. Type P. auridens.

Distribution

This genus occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Martinique.