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.

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