''Caseolus'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...
s in the family
Geomitridae
Geomitridae is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea
Helicoidea is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic Taxonomic rank, superfamily of air-b ...
.
[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]
The name ''Caseolus'' is masculine and means "little cheese", based on the shape of the
shell
Shell may refer to:
Architecture and design
* Shell (structure), a thin structure
** Concrete shell, a thin shell of concrete, usually with no interior columns or exterior buttresses
Science Biology
* Seashell, a hard outer layer of a marine ani ...
of species in this genus.
Species
Species include:
''Caseolus''.
Fauna Europaea.
* '' Caseolus abjectus'' R. T. Lowe, 1831
* '' Caseolus baixoensis'' Walden, 1983
* '' Caseolus bowdichianus'' (Férrusac, 1832)
* '' Caseolus calculus'' R. T. Lowe, 1855
* ''Caseolus calvus
''Caseolus calvus'' is a species of small air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae, the hairy snails and their allies.
Subspecies
* ''Caseolus calvus calvus'' (R. T. Lowe, 1831)
* ''Caseolus ...
'' 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
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
External links
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
Gastropod genera
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