Thaumastus (gastropod)

Thaumastus

Apertural and abapertural views of a shell of Thaumastus flori
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Orthalicoidea
Family:	Orthalicidae
Subfamily:	Bulimulinae
Genus:	Thaumastus Albers, 1860^[1]
Synonyms^[2]
Orphnus Albers, 1850 Orphaicus Schaufuss, 1869 Tatutor Jousseaume, 1887 Tholus Strebel, 1909 Pachytholus Strebel, 1909 Atahualpa Strebel, 1910

Thaumastus is a genus of tropical air-breathing land snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Orthalicidae.

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Thaumastus includes Colombia,^[2] Peru,^[3] Ecuador,^[4] ...

Species within the genus Thaumastus include:

Subgenus Kara Strebel, 1910^[5]

Thaumastus thompsonii (Pfeiffer, 1845) - type species of the subgenus Kara^[4]
Thaumastus thompsonoides Oberwimmer, 1931^[4]

Subgenus Scholvienia Strebel, 1910^[5]

Thaumastus bitaeniatus (Nyst, 1845) - synonym: Bulimus bitaeniatus Nyst, 1845 - type species of the subgenus Scholvienia^[4]
Thaumastus jaspideus (Morelet, 1863)^[4]

Subgenus Thaumastiella Weyrauch, 1956^[6]

Thaumastus sarcochrous (Pilsbry, 1897) - type species of the subgenus Thaumastiella^[4]

Subgenus Thaumastus Albers, 1860

Thaumastus brunneus Strebel, 1910^[4]
Thaumastus buckleyi (Higgins, 1872)^[4]
Thaumastus flori (Jousseaume, 1897)^[4]^[3]
Thaumastus hartwegi (Pfeiffer, 1846) - type species of the genus Thaumastus^[4]
Thaumastus indentatus (Da Costa, 1901)^[4]
Thaumastus integer (Pfeiffer, 1855)^[4]
Thaumastus loxostomus (Pfeiffer, 1853)^[4]
Thaumastus orcesi Weyrauch, 1967^[4]

Subgenus Paeniscutalus Wurtz, 1947^[7]

^ Albers J. C. (1860). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet von Joh. Christ. Albers. 2e Ausgabe: i-xviii, 1-359. Berlin. page 215.
^ ^a ^b Vera Ardila M. L. (2008). "Lista de los géneros de moluscos terrestres de Colombia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Mesogastropoda y Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Biota Colombiana 9(1): 39-62. PDF.
^ ^a ^b ^c Breure A. S. H. & Mogollón Avila V. (2010). "Well-known and little-known: miscellaneous notes on Peruvian Orthalicidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Zoologische Mededelingen 84. HTM.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Breure A. S. H. & Borrero F. J. (2008). "An annotated checklist of the land snail family Orthalicidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Orthalicoidea) in Ecuador, with notes on the distribution of the mainland species. Zootaxa 1768: 1-40. abstract.
^ ^a ^b Strebel (1910). Abh. Naturw. Ver. Hamburg 19(3): 16, 20.
^ Weyrauch (1956). Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 108: 11.
^ Wurtz C. B. (1947). "A new subgenus, Paeniscutalus, and the anatomy of its type species". The Nautilus 61: 11-17. page 12.