Rhinus

Rhinus
Shell of Rhinus pubescens (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Superorder:	Eupulmonata
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Helicina
Superfamily:	Orthalicoidea
Family:	Simpulopsidae
Genus:	Rhinus
Type species
Helix (Cochlogena) heterotricha S. Moricand, 1836
Synonyms
Bulimulus (Rhinus) E. von Martens

Rhinus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Simpulopsidae.^[1]

Species[]

Species within the genus Rhinus include:

• (Gruner, 1841)
• (Ancey, 1901)
• Simone & Salvador, 2016
• (Gould, 1846)
• (L. Pfeiffer, 1841)
• (Spix, 1827)
• Leme, 1986
• (Ihering, 1928)
• (S. Moricand, 1836)
• (Clessin, 1888)
• F. Haas, 1936
• (Reeve, 1849)
• (S. Moricand, 1846)
• (F. Baker, 1914)
• (Wood, 1828)
• (F. Baker, 1914)
• (F. Baker, 1914)
• (Weyrauch, 1967)
• (S. Moricand, 1836)

Species brought into synonymy

• Rhinus heterogrammus (S. Moricand, 1836): synonym of (S. Moricand, 1836)
• Rhinus longisetus (S. Moricand, 1846): synonym of (S. Moricand, 1846)

References[]

• Moricand S. 1846, 1876. Troisième supplément au Mémore sur les coquilles terrestres et fluviatiles de la province de Bahia envoyées par M. Blanchet. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d’Histoire Naturelle de Genève 11: 147-160
• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017.

External links[]

• Albers, J. C.; Martens, E. von. (1860). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet von Joh. Christ. Albers. Ed. 2. Pp. i-xviii, 1-359. Leipzig: Engelman
• Breure, A. S. H. & Araujo, R. (2017). The Neotropical land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) collected by the “Comisión Científica del Pacífico.”. PeerJ. 5, e3065

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