- Opisthosiphon
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Opisthosiphon Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade LittorinimorphaSuperfamily: Littorinoidea Family: Pomatiidae Genus: Opisthosiphon
Dall, 1905[1]Opisthosiphon is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Pomatiidae.[2]
Description
The genus Opisthosiphon has been described by American malacologist William Healey Dall in 1905.[1] Dall's type description reads as follows:[1]
“ Genus nov. OPISTHOSIPHON, Dall.
Type: Chondropoma Bahamense, Sh. (Figs. 1, 2.) Bahamas.
Shell with the habit of Chondropoma dentatum, Say, but in the adult with a tubular projection behind and distinct from the outer lip and the posterior angle of the aperture, but communicating with the lumen of the whorl. operculum as in Rhytidopoma, but thinner.
” Species
Species within the genus Opisthosiphon include:
- Opisthosiphon bahamense (Sh.) - type species, as Chondropoma bahamense Sh.[1]
- Opisthosiphon aguilerianum (Arango, 1876)[2]
- Opisthosiphon andrewsi Welch, 1929[2]
- Opisthosiphon apertum Torre & Henderson, 1920[2]
- Opisthosiphon bacillum Torre & Bartsch, 1941[2]
- Opisthosiphon banaoense Torre & Henderson, 1921[2]
- Opisthosiphon bermudezi Torre & Bartsch, 1941[2]
- Opisthosiphon berryi Clapp, 1919[2]
- Opisthosiphon bioscai Torre & Henderson, 1920[2]
- Opisthosiphon caguanense Torre & Bartsch, 1941[2]
- Opisthosiphon caroli Aguayo, 1932[2]
- Opisthosiphon claudens Torre & Bartsch, 1941[2]
- Opisthosiphon cucullatum Torre & Bartsch, 1941[2]
- Opisthosiphon cunaguae Welch, 1929[2]
- Opisthosiphon detectum Torre & Henderson, 1920[2]
- Opisthosiphon deviatum Torre & Bartsch, 1941[2]
- Opisthosiphon echinatum (Gundlach in Pfeiffer, 1857)[2]
- Opisthosiphon evanidum Torre & Henderson, 1921[2]
- Opisthosiphon greenfieldi Torre & Bartsch, 1941[2]
- Opisthosiphon guanajaense Torre & Bartsch, 1941[2]
- Opisthosiphon insularum Torre & Bartsch, 1941[2]
- Opisthosiphon judasense Torre & Henderson, 1920[2]
- Opisthosiphon lamellosum Torre & Bartsch, 1941[2]
- Opisthosiphon litorale Torre & Bartsch, 1941[2]
- Opisthosiphon manatiense Torre & Bartsch, 1941[2]
- Opisthosiphon moreletianum (Petit, 1850)[2]
- Opisthosiphon obtectum Torre & Henderson, 1920[2]
- Opisthosiphon obturatum Torre & Henderson, 1920[2]
- Opisthosiphon palmeri Torre & Bartsch, 1941[2]
- Opisthosiphon paredonense Torre & Henderson, 1920[2]
- Opisthosiphon plateroense Torre & Bartsch, 1941[2]
- Opisthosiphon plicatum Torre & Bartsch, 1941[2]
- Opisthosiphon poeyi Torre & Bartsch, 1941[2]
- Opisthosiphon prominulum Torre & Bartsch, 1941[2]
- Opisthosiphon protactum Torre & Henderson, 1920[2]
- Opisthosiphon pupoides (Morelet, 1849)[2]
- Opisthosiphon quesadai Aguayo, 1932[2]
- Opisthosiphon quinti Torre & Bartsch, 1941[2]
- Opisthosiphon sabinalense Sánchez Roig, 1949[2]
- Opisthosiphon sainzi Aguayo, 1934[2]
- Opisthosiphon salustii Torre & Henderson, 1920[2]
- Opisthosiphon sanchezi Torre & Bartsch, 1941[2]
- Opisthosiphon sculptum (Gundlach in Pfeiffer, 1857)[2]
- Opisthosiphon sosai Torre & Bartsch, 1941[2]
- Opisthosiphon subobtectum Torre & Bartsch, 1941[2]
- Opisthosiphon subobturatum Torre & Henderson, 1920[2]
- Opisthosiphon tersum Torre & Henderson, 1921[2]
- Opisthosiphon torrei Welch, 1929[2]
- Opisthosiphon turiguanoense Torre & Bartsch, 1941[2]
- Opistosiphon conicus Aguayo & Sánchez Roig, 1949[2]
References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference [1]
- ^ a b c d e Dall W. H. (1905). "An arrangement of the American Cyclostomatidae, with a revision of the nomenclature". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 6: 208-210.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax "Mollusca". Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
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