Caseolus

Caseolus
Caseolus bowdichianus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Geomitridae
Subfamily:	Geomitrinae
Tribe:	Geomitrini
Genus:	Caseolus R. T. Lowe, 1852 [1]
Synonyms
Caseolus (Caseolus)R. T. Lowe, 1852· accepted, alternate representation Caseolus (Helicomela)R. T. Lowe, 1855· accepted, alternate representation Caseolus (Leptostictea)Mandahl-Barth, 1950· accepted, alternate representation Helix (Caseolus)R. T. Lowe, 1852 Helix (Helicomela)R. T. Lowe, 1855 (basionym) Ochthephila (Caseolus)R. T. Lowe, 1852

Caseolus is a genus of land snails in the family Geomitridae. ^{[2] [3]}

The name Caseolus is masculine and means "little cheese", ^[4] based on the shape of the shell of species in this genus.

Species

Species include: ^[5]

• Caseolus abjectus R. T. Lowe, 1831
• Caseolus baixoensis Walden, 1983
• Caseolus bowdichianus (Férrusac, 1832)
• Caseolus calculus R. T. Lowe, 1855
• Caseolus calvus R. T. Lowe, 1831
• Caseolus commixtus R. T. Lowe, 1855
• Caseolus consors R. T. Lowe, 1831
• Caseolus galeatus (R. T. Lowe, 1862)
• Caseolus hartungi Albers, 1852
• † Caseolus heberti (Deshayes, 1863)
• Caseolus innominatus J. E. Gray, 1825
• Caseolus leptostictus R. T. Lowe, 1831
• Caseolus pittae (Paiva, 1866)
• Caseolus punctulatus G. B. Sowerby I, 1824
• Caseolus setulosus (R. T. Lowe, 1831)
• † Caseolus sphaerulus R. T. Lowe, 1852
• Caseolus subcalliferus Reeve, 1854

References

1. Lowe R. T. (1852). Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (2)9: 115.
2. Razkin, Oihana; Gómez-Moliner, Benjamín Juán; Prieto, Carlos Enrique; Martínez-Ortí, Alberto; Arrébola, José Ramón; Muñoz, Benito; Chueca, Luis Javier; Madeira, María José (February 2015). "Molecular phylogeny of the western Palaearctic Helicoidea (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 83: 99–117. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.11.014. ISSN   1055-7903. PMID   25485783.
3. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Caseolus R. T. Lowe, 1852. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996327 on 2021-02-19
4. "Caseol us". Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid, University of Notre Dame, accessed 15 June 2010.
5. Caseolus. Fauna Europaea.

• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017

External links

• Lowe, R. T. (1855 ["1854"]). Catalogus molluscorum pneumonatorum insularum Maderensium: or a list of all the land and freshwater shells, recent and fossil, of the Madeiran islands: arranged in groups according to their natural affinities; with diagnoses of the groups, and of the new or hitherto imperfectly defined species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 22: 161-208 [16 March 1855]; 209-218
• Lowe, R. T. (1852). Brief diagnostic notices of new Maderan land shells. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (2) 9 (50): 112-120; (2) 9 (52): 275-279. London