''Opisthostoma'' is a
genus of minute
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 with
opercula,
terrestrial 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 ...
mollusks or
micromollusk
A micromollusk is a shelled mollusk which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine mollusks, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater mollusks also ...
s in the
family Diplommatinidae.
Species
Species in the genus ''Opisthostoma'' include:
''Opisthostoma'' sensu stricto
;Synonyms:
''Plectostoma'' was treated as a subgenus of ''Opisthostoma''. In a 2014 revision, ''Plectostoma'' is treated as a separate genus.
[Liew T. S., Vermeulen J. J., bin Marzuki M. E. & Schilthuizen M. (2014). "A cybertaxonomic revision of the micro-landsnail genus ''Plectostoma'' Adam (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda, Diplommatinidae), from Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Indochina". '' ZooKeys'', e393. .]
References
Further reading
* Schilthuizen M., van Til A., Salverda M., Liew T.-S., James S. S., Elahan B. b. & Vermeulen J. J. (2006) "Microgeographic evolution of snail shell shape and predator behavior". ''
Evolution'' 60(9): 1851-1858.
External links
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Diplommatinidae
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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