''Obelus'' is a European
genus of small air-breathing
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...
s,
terrestrial pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusc
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...
s in the subfamily
Geomitrinae of the family
Geomitridae
Geomitridae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic Family (biology), family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, Terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). M ...
, the hairy snails and their allies.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Obelus W. Hartmann, 1842. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996324 on 2022-07-22]
Species
Species within the genus ''Obelus'' include:
* ''
Obelus despreauxii''
(d'Orbigny, 1839)
* ''
Obelus discogranulatus''
M. R. Alonso & Groh, 2003
* ''
Obelus mirandae''
(R. T. Lowe, 1861)
* ''
Obelus moderatus''
(Mousson, 1857)
* ''
Obelus moratus''
(Mousson, 1872)
* ''
Obelus pumilio''
(Dillwyn, 1817)
* ''
Obelus zarzaensis''
Neiber, Walther, Santana, M. R. Alonso & Ibáñez, 2016
;Synonym:
* ''Obelus philamnius''
(Bourguignat, 1863): synonyym of ''
Xerocrassa philamnia''
(Bourguignat, 1863) (superseded combination)
References
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
* Ibáñez, M., Alonso, M.R., Groh, K. & Hutterer, R. (2003). The Genus Obelus Hartmann, 1842 (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Helicoidea) and its Phylogenetic Relationships. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 242: 157–167.
External links
Nomenclator Zoologicus infoHartmann, J.D.W. (1840-1844). Erd- und Süsswasser-Gasteropoden der Schweiz. Mit Zugabe einiger merkwürdigen exotischen Arten, i-xx, 1-36
Gastropod genera
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