''Rhinus'' is a
genus
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of 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
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Terrestrial may also refer to:
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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 ...
mollusk
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s in the family
Simpulopsidae
Simpulopsidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Orthalicoidea. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Simpulopsidae Schileyko, 1999. Accessed through: World Regist ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Rhinus E. von Martens, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=877284 on 2021-02-20]
Species
Species within the genus ''Rhinus'' include:
* ''
Rhinus angosturensis''
(Gruner, 1841)
* ''
Rhinus argentinus''
(Ancey, 1901)
* ''
Rhinus botocudus''
Simone & Salvador, 2016
* ''
Rhinus ciliatus''
(Gould, 1846)
* ''
Rhinus constrictus''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1841)
* ''
Rhinus durus''
(Spix, 1827)
* ''
Rhinus evelinae''
Leme, 1986
* ''
Rhinus felipponei''
(Ihering, 1928)
* ''
Rhinus heterotrichus''
( Moricand, 1836)
* ''
Rhinus koseritzi''
(Clessin, 1888)
* ''
Rhinus obeliscus''
F. Haas, 1936
* ''
Rhinus ovulum''
(Reeve, 1849)
* ''
Rhinus pubescens''
( Moricand, 1846)
* ''
Rhinus rochai''
(F. Baker, 1914)
* ''
Rhinus scobinatus''
(Wood, 1828)
* ''
Rhinus suturalis''
(F. Baker, 1914)
* ''
Rhinus taipuensis''
(F. Baker, 1914)
* ''
Rhinus thomei''
(Weyrauch, 1967)
* ''
Rhinus velutinohispidus''
( Moricand, 1836)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Rhinus heterogrammus''
( Moricand, 1836): synonym of ''
Protoglyptus heterogramma''
(S. Moricand, 1836)
* ''Rhinus longisetus''
( Moricand, 1846): synonym of ''
Protoglyptus longiseta''
(S. Moricand, 1846)
References
* Moricand S. 1846, 1876. Troisième supplément au Mémore sur les coquilles terrestres et fluviatiles de la province de Bahia envoyées par M. Blanchet. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d’Histoire Naturelle de Genève 11: 147-160
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017.
External links
Albers, J. C.; Martens, E. von. (1860). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet von Joh. Christ. Albers. Ed. 2. Pp. i-xviii, 1-359. Leipzig: EngelmanBreure, A. S. H. & Araujo, R. (2017). The Neotropical land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) collected by the “Comisión Científica del Pacífico.”. PeerJ. 5, e3065
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