Opisthostoma

Not to be confused with Opisthosoma.

Opisthostoma
Pteroptyx tener larva attacking Opisthostoma fraternum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:
Cyclophoroidea
Family:
Diplommatinidae
Genus:
Opisthostoma

Blanford & Blanford, 1860

Opisthostoma is a genus of minute land snails with opercula, terrestrial gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Diplommatinidae.

Species

Species in the genus Opisthostoma include:[1]

Opisthostoma sensu stricto

Synonyms

Plectostoma was treated as a subgenus of Opisthostoma. In a 2014 revision, Plectostoma is treated as a separate genus.[2]

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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

  • 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


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