Opisthosiphon

Opisthosiphon
Opisthosiphon moreletianum (Petit de la Saussaye, 1850)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Annulariidae
Subfamily:	Abbottellinae
Genus:	Opisthosiphon W. H. Dall, 1905
Synonyms
List Bermudezsiphona de la Torre & Bartsch, 1941 Cubitasiphona de la Torre & Bartsch, 1941 Cylindrosiphona de la Torre & Bartsch, 1941 Leptopisthosiphon Bartsch, 1946 Mirisiphon de la Torre & Bartsch, 1941 Opisthocoelex de la Torre & Bartsch, 1941 Opisthocoelicum de la Torre & Bartsch, 1941 Opisthocoelops de la Torre & Bartsch, 1941 Opisthosiphon (Opisthosiphon) W. H. Dall, 1905 Opisthosiphon (Opisthosiphona) Henderson & Bartsch, 1920

Opisthosiphon is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Annulariidae.

Description

The genus Opisthosiphon has been described by American malacologist William Healey Dall in 1905. Dall's type description reads as follows:

Genus nov. OPISTHOSIPHON, Dall.

Type: Chondropoma Bahamense, Sh. (Figs. 1, 2.) Bahamas.

Shell with the habit of Chondropoma dentatum, Say, but in the adult with a tubular projection behind and distinct from the outer lip and the posterior angle of the aperture, but communicating with the

lumen of the whorl. operculum as in Rhytidopoma, but thinner.

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Opisthosiphon:

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.

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