Homorus Explained

Homorus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Achatinidae.^[1]

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 pp
• Pilsbry, 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

Notes and References

1. 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