Shells, teeth and DNA: land snails from an urban forest in Rio de Janeiro, SE Brazil Author Fernandes, Maurício Romulo Department of Zoology, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Author Alexandre, Guilherme de Lima Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MN / UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Author Salgueiro, Fabiano Department of Botany, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil & Department of Zoology, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; text Journal of Natural History 2025 2025-01-20 59 1 - 4 129 169 https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2446580 journal article 10.1080/00222933.2024.2446580 1464-5262 Cochlorina aurisleporis (Bruguière, 1792) ( Figure 6 (B–F)) Records in PNM da Cidade sta . 11, 10 September 2022 [1 spm, MNRJ 24292 ]; sta . 14, 22 December 2022 [2 spm]. Remarks The COI divergence (p-distance: 4.1%, for 653 nt) between the present DNA sequence and that from Praia Grande, São Paulo state ( Salvador et al . 2023 ), demands further investigation whether C. aurisleporis is constituted of more than one species or whether it has a considerable population structure. Geographic distribution Brazil : Bahia , Minas Gerais , Espírito Santo , São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro states ( Simone 2006 ; Salvador et al . 2023 ), including the city of Rio de Janeiro ( Lanzieri and Almeida 1964 ).