''Homorus'' 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 molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...
s,
terrestrial
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Terrestrial may also refer to:
* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on o ...
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 inclu ...
gastropod
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mollusc
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s in the family
Achatinidae
Achatinidae (New Latin, from Greek "''agate''") is a family of medium to large sized tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks from Africa.
Well known species include '' Achatina achatina'' the Giant African Snail, and '' L ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Homorus Albers, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995623 on 2021-03-07]
Species
Species within the genus ''Homorus'' include:
* ''
Homorus arabicus''
(Connolly, 1941)
* ''
Homorus badius''
(E. von Martens, 1889)
* ''
Homorus burnessi''
Connolly, 1923
* ''
Homorus courteti''
Germain, 1907
* ''
Homorus cyanostomus''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1842)
* ''
Homorus ellerbecki''
Kobelt, 1905
* ''
Homorus erlangeri''
Kobelt, 1905
* ''
Homorus fovelolatus''
Preston, 1909
* ''
Homorus garamulatae''
Kobelt, 1905
* ''
Homorus ginirensis''
Kobelt, 1905
* ''
Homorus martensi''
(Dupuis & Putzeys, 1901)
* ''
Homorus massonianus''
Crosse, 1888
* ''
Homorus megaspira''
(Mabille, 1884)
* ''
Homorus nebulosus''
(Morelet, 1883)
* ''
Homorus nigellus''
(Morelet, 1867)
* ''
Homorus obesus''
Kobelt, 1905
* ''
Homorus omeri''
Connolly, 1928
* ''
Homorus opeas''
Pilsbry, 1905
* ''
Homorus perlucida''
Preston, 1910
* ''
Homorus pyramidellus''
(E. von Martens, 1892)
* ''
Homorus splendens''
(Thiele, 1910)
;Taxon inquirendum:
* ''Homorus foveolatus''
Preston, 1909 (taxon inquirendum)
References
* Morelet, A., 1868 ''Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles''. In: Voyage du Dr. Friederich Welwitsch exécuté par ordre du gourvernement portugais dans les royaumes d'Angola et de Benguela, p. 102 pp
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
External links
Albers, J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Berlin: Enslin. 262 ppPilsbry, H.A. (1919). A review of the land mollusks of the Belgian Congo chiefly based on the collections of the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909-1915. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 40: 1-370, pls I-XXII
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