Caseolus

Caseolus is a genus of land snails in the family Geomitridae.

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

Species

Species include:

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

References

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

External links

• Lowe, R. T. (1855 &#91;"1854"&#93;). 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 &#91;16 March 1855&#93;; 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