''Opisthosiphon'' is a
genus
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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 with an
operculum,
terrestrial
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Terrestrial may also refer to:
* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on o ...
gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...
s in the family
Annulariidae
The family Annulariidae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family of small Operculum (gastropod), operculate land snails in the superfamily Littorinoidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Annulariidae Henderson & Bartsch, 1920. Accessed thr ...
.
Description
The genus ''Opisthosiphon'' has been described by American malacologist
William Healey Dall
William Healey Dall (August 21, 1845 – March 27, 1927) was an American natural history, naturalist, a prominent Malacology, malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska. He described many mollusks of the Pacifi ...
in 1905.
Dall's
type description
A species description is a formal scientific description of a newly encountered species, typically articulated through a scientific publication. Its purpose is to provide a clear description of a new species of organism and explain how it differ ...
reads as follows:
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus ''Opisthosiphon'':
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Opisthosiphon acklinsensis''
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Opisthosiphon aguilerianum''
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Opisthosiphon alleni''
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Opisthosiphon andrewsi''
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Opisthosiphon androsensis''
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Opisthosiphon apertum''
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Opisthosiphon bacillum''
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Opisthosiphon bahamense''
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Opisthosiphon banaoense''
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Opisthosiphon bermudezi''
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Opisthosiphon berryi''
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Opisthosiphon bioscai''
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Opisthosiphon caguanense''
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Opisthosiphon caroli''
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Opisthosiphon claudens''
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Opisthosiphon conicus''
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Opisthosiphon cucullatum''
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Opisthosiphon cunaguae
''Opisthosiphon'' is a genus of land snails with an Operculum (gastropod), operculum, terrestrial animal, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Annulariidae.
Description
The genus ''Opisthosiphon'' has been described by American malacol ...
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Opisthosiphon detectum''
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Opisthosiphon deviatum''
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Opisthosiphon echinatum''
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Opisthosiphon evanidum''
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Opisthosiphon excurrens''
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Opisthosiphon greenfieldi''
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Opisthosiphon guanajaense''
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Opisthosiphon insulanum''
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Opisthosiphon judasense''
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Opisthosiphon lamellicostatum''
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Opisthosiphon lamellosum''
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Opisthosiphon litorale''
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Opisthosiphon lucayanorus''
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Opisthosiphon manatiense''
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Opisthosiphon maynardi''
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Opisthosiphon mayori''
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Opisthosiphon millsi''
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Opisthosiphon moreletianum''
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Opisthosiphon nicholasi''
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Opisthosiphon obtectum''
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Opisthosiphon obturatum''
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Opisthosiphon opisthocoele''
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Opisthosiphon palmeri''
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Opisthosiphon paradoxum''
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Opisthosiphon paredonense''
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Opisthosiphon plateroense''
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Opisthosiphon plicatum''
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Opisthosiphon poeyi''
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Opisthosiphon prominulum''
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Opisthosiphon protractum''
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Opisthosiphon pupoides''
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Opisthosiphon quesadai''
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Opisthosiphon quinti''
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Opisthosiphon sainzi''
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Opisthosiphon salustii''
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Opisthosiphon sanchezi''
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Opisthosiphon sculptum''
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Opisthosiphon simpsoni''
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Opisthosiphon simulans''
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Opisthosiphon sosai''
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Opisthosiphon subobtectum''
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Opisthosiphon subobturatum''
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Opisthosiphon tersum''
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Opisthosiphon thesaurus''
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Opisthosiphon torrei''
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Opisthosiphon turiguanoense''
References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference
* Dall, W.H. (1905). An arrangement of the American Cyclostomatidae, with a revision of the nomenclature. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 6(4): 208–210.
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
Pomatiidae
Taxa named by William Healey Dall
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