Homorus

Homorus
Shell of Homorus nigellus (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:
Superfamily:	Achatinoidea
Family:	Achatinidae
Genus:	Homorus Albers, 1850
Type species
Achatina cyanostoma L. Pfeiffer, 1842
Synonyms
Achatina (Homorus) Albers, 1850 (original rank)

Homorus is agenus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Achatinidae. ^[1]

Species[]

Species within the genus Homorus include:

• (Connolly, 1941)
• (E. von Martens, 1889)
• Connolly, 1923
• Germain, 1907
• (L. Pfeiffer, 1842)
• Kobelt, 1905
• Kobelt, 1905
• Preston, 1909
• Kobelt, 1905
• Kobelt, 1905
• (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1901)
• Crosse, 1888
• (Mabille, 1884)
• (Morelet, 1883)
• (Morelet, 1867)
• Kobelt, 1905
• Connolly, 1928
• Pilsbry, 1905
• Preston, 1910
• (E. von Martens, 1892)
• (Thiele, 1910)

Taxon inquirendum

• Homorus foveolatus Preston, 1909 (taxon inquirendum)

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 16th, 2017.

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• Albers, J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Berlin: Enslin. 262 pp
• Pilsbry, H.A. (1919). A review of the land mollusks of the Belgian Congo chiefly based on the collections of the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909-1915. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 40: 1-370, pls I-XXII

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