Oestophora is a genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Trissexodontidae.
Distribution The distribution of the genus Oestophora includes western Iberian Peninsula, north Africa and the Azores.
Description The shell is ribbed, with rounded or keeled whorls. The apertural margin is reflected and thickened.
Reproductive system There is no flagellum, or penial papilla. There is one small dart sac, one longer accessory sac separated from vaginal walls and a vagina with three simple and long accessory (mucous) glands.
The number of haploid chromosomes is 30.Prieto C. E., Puente A. I, Altonaga K. & Gomez J. (1993). "Genital morphology of Caracolina lenticula (Michaud, 1831), with a new proposal of classification of helicodontoid genera (Pulmonata: Hygromioidea)". Malacologia 35(1): 63-77. page 73-74.
Species Species within the genus Oestophoa include: Oestophora barbula (Rossmässler, 1838)"Species in genus Oestophora (n=8)". AnimalBase, accessed 12 January 2011. Oestophora barrelsi (Hovestadt & Ripken, 2015) Oestophora calpeana (Morelet, 1854) Oestophora dorotheae Hesse, 1930 Oestophora granesae Arrébola Burgos, 1998 Oestophora lusitanica (Pfeiffer, 1841) - type species Oestophora ortizi Winter & Ripken, 1991 Oestophora silvae Ortiz de Zárate López, 1962 Oestophora tarnieri (Morelet, 1854)
Synonyms: Oestophora turriplana is a synonym for Gittenbergeria turriplana (Morelet, 1845)
References This article incorporates public domain text from the reference "Genus summary for Oestophora". AnimalBase, last modified 17 July 2008, accessed 13 January 2011.