Obeliscus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Stenogyrinae of the family Achatinidae.[2][3]
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| Obeliscus carphodes preserved shell | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Achatinina |
| Superfamily: | Achatinoidea |
| Family: | Achatinidae |
| Genus: | Obeliscus Beck, 1837[1] |
| Type species | |
| Helix obeliscus S. Moricand, 1834 | |
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Distribution
editSpecies
editThe genus Obeliscus includes the following species:
- Obeliscus abbotti Vanatta, 1918
- Obeliscus acicularis Aguayo & Jaume, 1957[5]
- Obeliscus agassizi Pilsbry, 1906[4]
- Obeliscus angustatus (Gundlach, 1856)[5]
- Obeliscus bacillus (Pfeiffer, 1861)[5]
- Obeliscus bacterionides (d’Orbigny, 1835)[6]
- Obeliscus basilissa Aguayo & Jaume, 1954[5]
- Obeliscus binneyi Pilsbry, 1906[5]
- Obeliscus blandianus Pilsbry, 1906[5]
- Obeliscus boitata Simone & Salvador, 2016
- Obeliscus carphodes (Pfeiffer, 1852)[4]
- Obeliscus clavus[5]
- Obeliscus clavus flavus Pilsbry, 1906[5]
- Obeliscus columella (Philippi, 1844)[4]
- Obeliscus gonostoma (Gundlach in Pfeiffer, 1863)[5]
- Obeliscus gundlachi (Pfeiffer, 1863)[5]
- Obeliscus homalogyrus (Shuttleworth in Pfeiffer, 1851)[5]
- Obeliscus lata Gundlach in Pilsbry, 1905[5]
- Obeliscus latispira Pilsbry, 1944
- Obeliscus maximus (Poey, 1854)[5]
- Obeliscus microstoma (Gundlach in Pfeiffer, 1863)[5]
- Obeliscus moderatus Pilsbry, 1933
- Obeliscus obeliscus (Moricand, 1833)[4]
- Obeliscus paradoxus (Arango, 1881)[5]
- Obeliscus pattalus Pilsbry, 1906[4]
- Obeliscus peregrinus (Pfeiffer, 1855)
- Obeliscus petricola Aguayo & Jaume, 1957[5]
- Obeliscus planospirus (Pfeiffer, 1852)[4]
- Obeliscus saugeti Aguayo & Jaume, 1957[5]
- Obeliscus strictus (Poey, 1853)[5]
- Obeliscus subuliformis (Moricand, 1836)[4]
- Obeliscus swiftianus (Pfeiffer, 1852)[5]
- Obeliscus sylvaticus (Spix, 1827)[4]
- Obeliscus virescens (Da Costa, 1898)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Obeliscus blandi (L. Pfeiffer, 1854): synonym of Coeliaxis blandi (L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
- Obeliscus brunneus A. Adams, 1854: synonym of Colsyrnola brunnea (A. Adams, 1854)
- Obeliscus cuneus (L. Pfeiffer, 1852): synonym of Protobeliscus cuneus (L. Pfeiffer, 1852) (basionym)
- Obeliscus jousseaumei Cousin, 1887: synonym of Protobeliscus jousseaumei (Cousin, 1887)
- Obeliscus lymneaeformis Melvill & Ponsonby, 1901: synonym of Euonyma lymneaeformis (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1901) (original combination)
- Obeliscus natalensis Burnup, 1905: synonym of Euonyma natalensis (Burnup, 1905) (original combination)
- Obeliscus octogyrus (L. Pfeiffer, 1856): synonym of Stenogyra octogyra (L. Pfeiffer, 1856) (superseded combination)
- Obeliscus terebraster (Lamarck, 1822): synonym of Stenogyra terebraster (Lamarck, 1822) (unaccepted combination)
- Obeliscus tessellatus A. Adams, 1854: synonym of Longchaeus maculosus (Lamarck, 1822)
- Obeliscus triptyx (Pilsbry, 1907): synonym of Ischnocion triptyx (Pilsbry, 1907)
See also
edit- Obeliscus Gray, 1847 is a synonym of Pyramidella[7]
- Obeliscus Popofsky, 1913[8] is a genus of protist
References
edit- ^ Beck (1837). Index Moll. Mus. Ch. Fred. (1): 61.
- ^ Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: 16 July 2017.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 10 January 2019.
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Obeliscus H. Beck, 1837. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=877286 on 23 June 2020
- ^ a b c d e f g h i (in Portuguese) Salgado N. C. & Coelho A. C. S. (2003). "Moluscos terrestres do Brasil (Gastrópodes operculados ou não, exclusive Veronicellidae, Milacidae e Limacidae)". Revista de Biología Tropical 51(Suppl. 3): 149–189. (with English abstract), PDF Archived 4 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t "Mollusca" Archived 18 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
- ^ D'Avila et al. Rediscovery of Obeliscus agassizi Pilsbry, 1906 (Gastropoda, Subulinidae, Obeliscinae), annotated checklist of * Of Obeliscus Beck, 1837 and first description of the anatomy for the genus; Zoosystema 2020 42 (2)
- ^ WoRMS (2011). Pyramidella Lamarck, 1799. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=160041 on 15 March 2011
- ^ Popofsky (1913). Dtsch. Südpolar Exped. 14(2): 279.