Homorus

Homorus
Shell of Homorus nigellus (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Achatinina
Superfamily:	Achatinoidea
Family:	Achatinidae
Genus:	Homorus Albers, 1850
Type species
Achatina cyanostomaL. Pfeiffer, 1842
Synonyms
Achatina (Homorus)Albers, 1850 (original rank)

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

General characteristics

(Original description in Latin) The shell is thin. It is turretted, with a blunt apex. There are 9 whorls; the body whorl equals one-third of the total length. The columella is somewhat straight and is obliquely truncated. The aperture is oblong-oval. The lip is thin and is acute (sharp). ^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Homorus include:

• Homorus angustatus (Jickeli, 1873) (accepted > unreplaced junior homonym)
• Homorus antorinii (Morelet, 1872)
• Homorus arabicus (Connolly, 1941)
• Homorus cerinus Thiele, 1933
• Homorus conformis Thiele, 1933
• Homorus courteti Germain, 1907
• Homorus cyanostomus (L. Pfeiffer, 1842)
• Homorus dalbaensis Thiele, 1933
• Homorus discretus Thiele, 1933
• Homorus djimmaensis Thiele, 1933
• Homorus ellerbecki Kobelt, 1905
• Homorus erlangeri Kobelt, 1905
• Homorus fragilis Thiele, 1933
• Homorus garamulatae Kobelt, 1905
• Homorus ginirensis Kobelt, 1905
• Homorus kaffaensis Thiele, 1933
• Homorus laevis Thiele, 1933
• Homorus martensi (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1901)
• Homorus maurus Thiele, 1933
• Homorus megaspira (Mabille, 1884)
• Homorus meneleki (Preston, 1910)
• Homorus nebulosus (Morelet, 1883)
• Homorus nigellus (Morelet, 1867)
• Homorus nitens Thiele, 1933
• Homorus nympha (Preston, 1910)
• Homorus omeri Connolly, 1928
• Homorus opeas Pilsbry, 1905
• Homorus perrierianus (Bourguignat, 1883)
• Homorus pyramidellus (E. von Martens, 1892)
• Homorus ragazzii Pollonera, 1887
• Homorus splendens (Thiele, 1910)
• Homorus suaveolatus (Jickeli, 1873)
• Homorus subulatus (Jickeli, 1873)
• Homorus variabilis (Jickeli, 1873)
• Homorus vernicosus (Jickeli, 1873)
• Homorus vicinus (Preston, 1910)

Synonyms

• Homorus badius(E. von Martens, 1889): synonym of Subulona badia (E. von Martens, 1889)
• Homorus burnessiConnolly, 1923: synonym of Subulona burnessi (Connolly, 1923) (superseded combination, basionym
• Homorus foveolatusPreston, 1909: synonym of Homorus robinkempi Pilsbry, 1919
• Homorus massonianusCrosse, 1888: synonym of Petriola marmorea (Reeve, 1850)
• Homorus obesusKobelt, 1905: synonym of Homorus erlangeri Kobelt, 1905
• Homorus perlucidaPreston, 1910: synonym of Subulina perlucida (Preston, 1910) (original combination)

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
2. Albers, J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Berlin: Enslin. 262 pp This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

• 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

• 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