Caseolus is a genus of land snails in the family Geomitridae.[2][3]
| Caseolus | |
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| Caseolus bowdichianus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Geomitridae |
| Subfamily: | Geomitrinae |
| Tribe: | Geomitrini |
| Genus: | Caseolus R. T. Lowe, 1852[1] |
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The name Caseolus is masculine and means "little cheese",[4] based on the shape of the shell of this species.
Species
editSpecies 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
edit- ^ Lowe R. T. (1852). Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (2)9: 115.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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
- ^ "Caseol us". Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid, University of Notre Dame, accessed 15 June 2010.
- ^ Caseolus. Fauna Europaea.
- Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
External links
edit- 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