Homorus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Achatinidae.
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).
Species
Species within the genus Homorus include:
- Homorus angustatus <small>(Jickeli, 1873)</small> (accepted > unreplaced junior homonym)
- Homorus antorinii <small>(Morelet, 1872)</small>
- Homorus arabicus <small>(Connolly, 1941)</small>
- Homorus cerinus <small>Thiele, 1933</small>
- Homorus conformis <small>Thiele, 1933</small>
- Homorus courteti <small>Germain, 1907</small>
- Homorus cyanostomus <small>(L. Pfeiffer, 1842)</small>
- Homorus dalbaensis <small>Thiele, 1933</small>
- Homorus discretus <small>Thiele, 1933</small>
- Homorus djimmaensis <small>Thiele, 1933</small>
- Homorus ellerbecki <small>Kobelt, 1905</small>
- Homorus erlangeri <small>Kobelt, 1905</small>
- Homorus fragilis <small>Thiele, 1933</small>
- Homorus garamulatae <small>Kobelt, 1905</small>
- Homorus ginirensis <small>Kobelt, 1905</small>
- Homorus kaffaensis <small>Thiele, 1933</small>
- Homorus laevis <small>Thiele, 1933</small>
- Homorus martensi <small>(Dupuis & Putzeys, 1901)</small>
- Homorus maurus <small>Thiele, 1933</small>
- Homorus megaspira <small>(Mabille, 1884)</small>
- Homorus meneleki <small>(Preston, 1910)</small>
- Homorus nebulosus <small>(Morelet, 1883)</small>
- Homorus nigellus <small>(Morelet, 1867)</small>
- Homorus nitens <small>Thiele, 1933</small>
- Homorus nympha <small>(Preston, 1910)</small>
- Homorus omeri <small>Connolly, 1928</small>
- Homorus opeas <small>Pilsbry, 1905</small>
- Homorus perrierianus <small>(Bourguignat, 1883)</small>
- Homorus pyramidellus <small>(E. von Martens, 1892)</small>
- Homorus ragazzii <small>Pollonera, 1887</small>
- Homorus splendens <small>(Thiele, 1910)</small>
- Homorus suaveolatus <small>(Jickeli, 1873)</small>
- Homorus subulatus <small>(Jickeli, 1873)</small>
- Homorus variabilis <small>(Jickeli, 1873)</small>
- Homorus vernicosus <small>(Jickeli, 1873)</small>
- Homorus vicinus <small>(Preston, 1910)</small>
Synonyms:
- Homorus badius <small>(E. von Martens, 1889)</small>: synonym of Subulona badia <small>(E. von Martens, 1889)</small>
- Homorus burnessi <small>Connolly, 1923</small>: synonym of Subulona burnessi <small>(Connolly, 1923)</small> (superseded combination, basionym
- Homorus foveolatus <small>Preston, 1909</small>: synonym of Homorus robinkempi <small>Pilsbry, 1919</small>
- Homorus massonianus <small>Crosse, 1888</small>: synonym of Petriola marmorea <small>(Reeve, 1850)</small>
- Homorus obesus <small>Kobelt, 1905</small>: synonym of Homorus erlangeri <small>Kobelt, 1905</small>
- Homorus perlucida <small>Preston, 1910</small>: synonym of Subulina perlucida <small>(Preston, 1910)</small> (original combination)
References
- 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.
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