Mirus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Eninae of the family Enidae.
Characteristics
(Original description in Latin) The shell of species in this genus is fissured-perforated (or narrowly umbilicate), it is subcylindrical, thin, and pellucid. It has 8 whorls; the body whorl is slightly ascending anteriorly (in front) and it equals 1/3 of the length of the shell
The columella is arched; the aperture is oval; the peristome (lip) is expanded. It is callous (thickened) internally, with the margins being subparallel and joined by a rather thick, dentate callus.
Species
- Mirus acuminatus <small>(Möllendorff, 1901)</small>
- Mirus alboreflexus <small>(Ancey, 1882)</small>
- Mirus andersonianus <small>(Möllendorff, 1885)</small>
- Mirus antisecalinus <small>(Heude, 1890)</small>
- Mirus armandi <small>(Ancey, 1882)</small>
- Mirus aubryanus <small>(Heude, 1885)</small>
- Mirus avenaceus <small>(Heude, 1885)</small>
- Mirus brachystoma <small>(Heude, 1882)</small>
- Mirus brizoides <small>(Möllendorff, 1901)</small>
- Mirus cantorii <small>(Philippi, 1844)</small>
- Mirus chalcedonicus <small>(Gredler, 1887)</small>
- Mirus daucopsis <small>(Heude, 1888)</small>
- Mirus davidi <small>(Deshayes, 1870)</small>
- Mirus derivatus <small>(Deshayes, 1874)</small>
- â Mirus euonymus <small>(Sturany, 1899)</small>
- Mirus fargesianus <small>(Heude, 1885)</small>
- Mirus franzhuberi <small>Thach, 2020</small>
- Mirus frinianus <small>(Heude, 1885)</small>
- â Mirus funiculoides <small>(Hsü, 1936)</small>
- Mirus funiculus <small>(Heude, 1882)</small>
- Mirus gracilispirus <small>Kajiyama & Habe, 1961</small> (homonym)
- Mirus gracilispirus <small>(Möllendorff, 1901)</small>
- Mirus hanleyanus <small>(Kobelt, 1902)</small>
- Mirus hartmanni <small>(Ancey, 1888)</small>
- Mirus interstratus <small>(Sturany, 1899)</small>
- Mirus japonicus <small>(Möllendorff, 1885)</small>
- Mirus junensis <small>O.-K. Kwon & J.-S. Lee, 1991</small>
- Mirus krejcii <small>(Haas, 1933)</small>
- Mirus meronianus <small>(Heude, 1890)</small>
- Mirus minutus <small>(Heude, 1882)</small>
- Mirus moupiniensis <small>(Deshayes, 1870)</small>
- Mirus murotonis <small>(Kuroda & Habe, 1945)</small>
- Mirus nilagiricus <small>(L. Pfeiffer, 1846)</small>
- Mirus nothus <small>(Pilsbry, 1934)</small>
- Mirus obongensis <small>J.-S. Lee & D.-K. Min, 2018</small>
- Mirus panos <small>(Benson, 1853)</small>
- Mirus praelongus <small>(Ancey, 1882)</small>
- Mirus proletarius <small>(L. Pfeiffer, 1855)</small>
- Mirus pyrinus <small>(Möllendorff, 1901)</small>
- Mirus reinianus <small>(Kobelt, 1875)</small>
- Mirus rugulosus <small>(Möllendorff, 1900)</small>
- Mirus saccatus <small>(Möllendorff, 1902)</small>
- Mirus siehoensis <small>(Hilber, 1883)</small>
- Mirus smithei <small>(Benson, 1865)</small>
- Mirus stalix <small>(Benson, 1863)</small>
- Mirus transiens <small>(Ancey, 1888)</small>
- Mirus ultriculus <small>(Heude, 1882)</small>
- Mirus utriculus <small>(Heude, 1882)</small>
- Mirus vicarius <small>(W. T. Blanford, 1870)</small>
Species brought into synonymy:
- Mirus albescens <small>(Möllendorff, 1884)</small>: synonym of Apoecus albescens <small>(Möllendorff, 1884)</small> (unaccepted combination)
- Mirus cantori <small>(Philippi, 1844)</small>: synonym of Mirus cantorii <small>(Philippi, 1844)</small> (incorrect subsequent spelling)
- Mirus ceratinus <small>(Benson, 1849)</small>: synonym of Nepaliena ceratina <small>(Benson, 1849)</small>
- Mirus granulatus <small>(Möllendorff, 1884)</small>: synonym of Apoecus granulatus <small>(Möllendorff, 1884)</small> (superseded combination)
- Mirus hartmanni <small>(Ancey, 1888)</small>: synonym of Mirus hartmani <small>(Ancey, 1888)</small> (incorrect subsequent spelling)
- Mirus huberi <small>Thach, 2018</small> (taxon inquirendum, debated synonym)
- Mirus mupingianus <small>(Deshayes, 1870)</small>: synonym of Mirus moupiniensis <small>(Deshayes, 1870)</small> (misspelling of specific epithet)
- Mirus trivialis <small>(Ancey, 1888)</small>: synonym of Apoecus trivialis <small>(Ancey, 1888)</small> (unaccepted combination)
References
- Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
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