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Coilostele W. H. Benson, 1864
996310 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:996310)
accepted
Genus
Coilostele scalaris W. H. Benson, 1864 (type by monotypy)
Coelostele W. T. Blanford, 1875 · unaccepted (invalid: unjustified emendation...)
invalid: unjustified emendation of Coilostele
Francesia Paladilhe, 1872 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Coilostele acus (L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
- Species Coilostele anarum (Altimiras & Bech, 2000)
- Species Coilostele cylindrata O. Boettger, 1905
- Species Coilostele eocena Oppenheim, 1895 †
- Species Coilostele paladilhiana G. Nevill, 1878
- Species Coilostele scalaris W. H. Benson, 1864
- Species Coilostele xana Raven, Alonso Suárez, Prieto & Quiñonero Salgado, 2025
- Species Coilostele hispanica Bourguignat, 1880 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
- Species Coilostele inquirenda B. Rensch, 1935 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
- Species Coilostele tampicoensis (Pilsbry, 1907) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
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Benson, W. H. (1864). Characters of <i>Coilostele</i>, an undescribed genus of Auriculacea (?), and of species of <i>Helix</i>, <i>Pupa</i>, and <i>Ancylus</i>, from India, West Africa, and Ceylon. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (3) 13(74): 136-140., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26482420
page(s): 136. [details]
page(s): 136. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Coilostele W. H. Benson, 1864. Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996310 on 2025-09-11
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original description
Benson, W. H. (1864). Characters of <i>Coilostele</i>, an undescribed genus of Auriculacea (?), and of species of <i>Helix</i>, <i>Pupa</i>, and <i>Ancylus</i>, from India, West Africa, and Ceylon. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (3) 13(74): 136-140., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26482420
page(s): 136. [details]
original description (of Francesia Paladilhe, 1872) Paladilhe, A. (1872). Du nouveau genre asiatique <i>Francesia</i>. <em>Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova.</em> 3: 5-11., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10267767
page(s): 10 [details]
original description (of Coelostele W. T. Blanford, 1875) Blanford, W. T. (1875). Note on the molluscan genera <i>Coelostele</i>, Benson and <i>Francesia</i>, Paladilhe, and on some species of land-shells from Aden. <em>The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.</em> 44 (1): 41-46. Calcutta [24 July]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37191938 [details]
basis of record Raven J.G.M., Alonso Suárez A., Prieto C.E. & Quiñonero Salgado S. (2025). Review of the genus <i>Coilostele</i> Benson, 1864 (Gastropoda: Ellobiidae) in Spain, including <i>Coilostele xana</i> spec. nov. from Asturias and first observations on the anatomy of the genus. <em>Basteria.</em> 89 (1): 71-92. [details] Available for editors
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source of synonymy Naggs, F. (1997). William Benson and the early study of land snails in British India and Ceylon. <em>Archives of Natural History.</em> 24(1): 37-88.
page(s): 65-72, figs. 13-21 [details]
page(s): 136. [details]
original description (of Francesia Paladilhe, 1872) Paladilhe, A. (1872). Du nouveau genre asiatique <i>Francesia</i>. <em>Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova.</em> 3: 5-11., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10267767
page(s): 10 [details]
original description (of Coelostele W. T. Blanford, 1875) Blanford, W. T. (1875). Note on the molluscan genera <i>Coelostele</i>, Benson and <i>Francesia</i>, Paladilhe, and on some species of land-shells from Aden. <em>The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.</em> 44 (1): 41-46. Calcutta [24 July]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37191938 [details]
basis of record Raven J.G.M., Alonso Suárez A., Prieto C.E. & Quiñonero Salgado S. (2025). Review of the genus <i>Coilostele</i> Benson, 1864 (Gastropoda: Ellobiidae) in Spain, including <i>Coilostele xana</i> spec. nov. from Asturias and first observations on the anatomy of the genus. <em>Basteria.</em> 89 (1): 71-92. [details] Available for editors
[request]source of synonymy Naggs, F. (1997). William Benson and the early study of land snails in British India and Ceylon. <em>Archives of Natural History.</em> 24(1): 37-88.
page(s): 65-72, figs. 13-21 [details]
