Opisthostoma
Not to be confused with Opisthosoma.
| Opisthostoma | |
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| 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 (In a recent revision, this subgenus is treated as a separate genus[2])
- 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 sensu stricto
- 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ T.S. Liew, J.J. Vermeulen, M.E. bin Marzuki & M. Schilthuizen, 2014. A cybertaxonomic revision of the micro-landsnail genus Plectostoma Adam (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda, Diplommatinidae), from Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Indochina. Zookeys, e393.
Further reading
- Schilthuizen M., van Til A., Salverda M., Liew T.-S., James S. S., Elahan B. b. & Vermeulen J. J. (September 2006) "Microgeographic evolution of snail shell shape and predator behavior". Evolution 60(9): 1851-1858. doi:10.1554/06-114.1