Opisthostoma is a genus of minute land snails with opercula, terrestrial gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Diplommatinidae.
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| Genus: | Opisthostoma Blanford & Blanford, 1860
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Species
editSpecies in the genus Opisthostoma include:[1]
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
- Synonyms
Plectostoma was treated as a subgenus of Opisthostoma. In a 2014 revision, Plectostoma is treated as a separate genus.[2]
- Opisthostoma everettii
- Opisthostoma goniostoma
- Opisthostoma grandispinosum
- Opisthostoma hosei
- Opisthostoma mirabile
- Opisthostoma obliquedentatum Vermeulen, 1994 is a synonym of Plectostoma obliquedentatum (Vermeulen, 1994)
- Opisthostoma pulchellum
- Opisthostoma lituus
- Opisthostoma shelfordi
- Opisthostoma stellasubis
References
edit- ^ Schilthuizen M. (2003). "Sexual selection on land snail shell ornamentation: a hypothesis that may explain shell diversity". BMC Evolutionary Biology 3: 13. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-3-13.
- ^ 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. doi:10.3897/zookeys.393.6717.
Further reading
edit- 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. doi:10.1554/06-114.1
External links
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