| Opisthosiphon | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Annulariidae |
| Subfamily: | Abbottellinae |
| Genus: | Opisthosiphon W. H. Dall, 1905 [1] |
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Opisthosiphon is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Annulariidae.
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.
The following species are recognised in the genus Opisthosiphon: [2]
Ramsdenia is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Pomatiidae.
Helicinidae is a family of small tropical land snails which have an operculum. They are terrestrial operculate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicinoidea.
Cerion is a genus of small to medium-sized tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Cerionidae, sometimes known as the peanut snails. The genus is endemic to the Caribbean region.
Chondropoma is a genus of small operculate land snails, terrestrial gastropods in the subfamily Chondropomatinae of the family Annulariidae.
Urocoptidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Urocoptoidea.
The family Pomatiidae is a taxonomic family of small operculate land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that can be found over the warmer parts of the Old World. In the older literature, this family is designated as Pomatiasidae.
The family Annulariidae is a taxonomic family of small operculate land snails in the superfamily Littorinoidea.
Annularisca is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Pomatiidae.
Annularodes is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Pomatiidae.
Annularops is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Pomatiidae.
Rhytidopoma is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Pomatiidae.
Chondropometes is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Annulariidae.
Chondrothyra is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Pomatiidae.
Eutudora is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Pomatiidae.
Subannularia is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Pomatiidae.
Troschelvindex is a genus of land snails with an operculum: these terrestrial gastropod mollusks are in the family Pomatiidae.
Xenopoma is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Annulariidae.
Abbottella is a genus of operculate land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks gastropod in the family Pomatiidae.
Vitrinella is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Vitrinellidae.
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