''Thelidomus'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

of air-breathing land snails,

terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth. 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 or near the ground, as opposed to ...

pulmonate gastropod

mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is es ...

s in the family

Pleurodontidae Pleurodontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Pleurodontidae Ihering, 1912. Accessed through: World Register of Marine S ...

. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Thelidomus Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996653 on 2021-02-09 This genus is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found els ...

Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of Hispan ...

Species

Species within the genus ''Thelidomus'' include: * ''

Thelidomus aspera ''Thelidomus aspera'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pleurodontidae. Distribution This species occurs in Jamaica. This species has not yet become established in the USA, b ...

'' (Férussac, 1821) * '' Thelidomus cognatus'' (Férussac, 1821)

References

* Férussac, A.E.J.P.F. d'Audebard de. , 1819-1832 - Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles tant des espèces que l’on trouve aujourd’hui vivantes, que des dépouilles fossiles de celles qui n’existent plus; classés d’après les caractères essentiels que presentment ces animaux et leurs coquilles. Tome deuxième * Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017
Nomenclator Zoologicus info

External links

Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. London, Longman. viii + 419 pp

Albers, J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Berlin: Enslin. 262 pp
Pleurodontidae Endemic fauna of Jamaica Gastropod genera {{Pleurodontidae-stub