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Opisthosiphon

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Opisthosiphon
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Annulariidae
Subfamily: Abbottellinae
Genus: Opisthosiphon
W. H. Dall, 1905[1]
Synonyms
List
  • Bermudezsiphona de la Torre & Bartsch, 1941
  • Cubitasiphona de la Torre & Bartsch, 1941
  • Cylindrosiphona de la Torre & Bartsch, 1941
  • Leptopisthosiphon Bartsch, 1946
  • Mirisiphon de la Torre & Bartsch, 1941
  • Opisthocoelex de la Torre & Bartsch, 1941
  • Opisthocoelicum de la Torre & Bartsch, 1941
  • Opisthocoelops de la Torre & Bartsch, 1941
  • Opisthosiphon (Opisthosiphon) W. H. Dall, 1905
  • Opisthosiphon (Opisthosiphona) Henderson & Bartsch, 1920

Opisthosiphon is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Annulariidae.

Description

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The genus Opisthosiphon has been described by American malacologist William Healey Dall in 1905.[1] Dall's type description reads as follows:[1]

Genus nov. OPISTHOSIPHON, Dall.

Type: Chondropoma Bahamense, Sh. (Figs. 1, 2.) Bahamas.

Shell with the habit of Chondropoma dentatum, Say, but in the adult with a tubular projection behind and distinct from the outer lip and the posterior angle of the aperture, but communicating with the

lumen of the whorl. operculum as in Rhytidopoma, but thinner.

Species

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The following species are recognised in the genus Opisthosiphon:[2]

References

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This article incorporates public domain text from the reference[1]

  • Dall, W.H. (1905). An arrangement of the American Cyclostomatidae, with a revision of the nomenclature. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 6(4): 208–210.
  • Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
  1. ^ a b c d Dall W. H. (1905). "An arrangement of the American Cyclostomatidae, with a revision of the nomenclature". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 6: 208–210.
  2. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Opisthosiphon Dall, 1905". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2023-06-27.