Homorus
Appearance
Homorus | |
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Shell of Homorus nigellus (syntype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Suborder: | Achatinina |
Superfamily: | Achatinoidea |
Family: | Achatinidae |
Genus: | Homorus Albers, 1850 |
Type species | |
Achatina cyanostoma L. Pfeiffer, 1842 | |
Synonyms | |
Achatina (Homorus) Albers, 1850 (original rank) |
Homorus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Achatinidae.[1]
Species
[edit]Species within the genus Homorus include:
- Homorus arabicus (Connolly, 1941)
- Homorus badius (E. von Martens, 1889)
- Homorus burnessi Connolly, 1923
- Homorus courteti Germain, 1907
- Homorus cyanostomus (L. Pfeiffer, 1842)
- Homorus ellerbecki Kobelt, 1905
- Homorus erlangeri Kobelt, 1905
- Homorus fovelolatus Preston, 1909
- Homorus garamulatae Kobelt, 1905
- Homorus ginirensis Kobelt, 1905
- Homorus martensi (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1901)
- Homorus massonianus Crosse, 1888
- Homorus megaspira (Mabille, 1884)
- Homorus nebulosus (Morelet, 1883)
- Homorus nigellus (Morelet, 1867)
- Homorus obesus Kobelt, 1905
- Homorus omeri Connolly, 1928
- Homorus opeas Pilsbry, 1905
- Homorus perlucida Preston, 1910
- Homorus pyramidellus (E. von Martens, 1892)
- Homorus splendens (Thiele, 1910)
- Taxon inquirendum
- Homorus foveolatus Preston, 1909 (taxon inquirendum)
References
[edit]- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Homorus Albers, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995623 on 2021-03-07
- Morelet, A., 1868 Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles. In: Voyage du Dr. Friederich Welwitsch exécuté par ordre du gourvernement portugais dans les royaumes d'Angola et de Benguela, p. 102 pp
- Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
External links
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- Albers, J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Berlin: Enslin. 262 pp
- Pilsbry, H.A. (1919). A review of the land mollusks of the Belgian Congo chiefly based on the collections of the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909-1915. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 40: 1-370, pls I-XXII