Opisthostoma

Opisthostoma
Drawing of the shell of Opisthostoma mirabile from Borneo.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:	Cyclophoroidea
Family:	Diplommatinidae
Genus:	Opisthostoma Blanford & Blanford, 1860

Opisthostoma is a genus of minute land snails with opercula, terrestrial gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Diplommatinidae.

Species

Species in the genus Opisthostoma include^[1]:

subgenus Plectostoma

• Opisthostoma everettii
• Opisthostoma goniostoma
• Opisthostoma grandispinosum
• Opisthostoma hosei
• Opisthostoma mirabile
• Opisthostoma obliquedentatum - photo on figure 3b: doi:10.1641/0006-3568(2006)56[733:LKOSAI]2.0.CO;2
• Opisthostoma pulchellum
• Opisthostoma lituus
• Opisthostoma shelfordi
• Opisthostoma stellasubis

subgenus ?

• Opisthostoma beeartee
• Opisthostoma bihamulatum
• Opisthostoma decrespignyi
• Opisthostoma dormani
• Opisthostoma fraternum
• Opisthostoma inornatum
• Opisthostoma jucundum
• Opisthostoma nilgiricum Blanford & Blanford 1860 - type species
• Opisthostoma otostoma
• Opisthostoma perspectivum
• Opisthostoma simplex
• Opisthostoma vermiculum

References

1. ^ Menno Schilthuizen. (2003) Sexual selection on land snail shell ornamentation: a hypothesis that may explain shell diversity. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2003, 3:13. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-3-13

Further reading

• Schilthuizen M., van Til A., Salverda M., Liew T.-S., James S. S., Elahan B. b., Vermeulen J. J. & O'Foighil D. (September 2006) "Microgeographic evolution of snail shell shape and predator behavior". Evolution 60(9): 1851-1858. doi:10.1554/06-114.1

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