Thaumastus (gastropod)

Thaumastus
Apertural and abapertural views of a shell of Thaumastus flori
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Orthalicoidea
Family: Megaspiridae
Genus: Thaumastus
Albers, 1860[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Orphnus Albers, 1850
  • Orphaicus Schaufuss, 1869
  • Tatutor Jousseaume, 1887
  • Tholus Strebel, 1909
  • Pachytholus Strebel, 1909
  • Atahualpa Strebel, 1910

Thaumastus is a genus of tropical air-breathing land snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Megaspiridae.[3]

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Thaumastus includes Colombia,[2] Peru,[4] Ecuador,[5] ...

Species

Species within the genus Thaumastus include:

Subgenus Scholvienia Strebel, 1910[6]

Subgenus Thaumastiella Weyrauch, 1956[7]

Subgenus Thaumastus Albers, 1860

Subgenus Paeniscutalus Wurtz, 1947[8]

See also

Kara was a subgenus of Thaumastus and Kara was elevated to its genus level in 2011.[9]

References

  1. Albers J. C. (1860). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet von Joh. Christ. Albers. 2e Ausgabe: i-xviii, 1-359. Berlin. page 215.
  2. 1 2 Vera Ardila M. L. (2008). "Lista de los géneros de moluscos terrestres de Colombia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Mesogastropoda y Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Biota Colombiana 9(1): 39-62. PDF.
  3. Breure A. S. H. & Romero P. (2012). "Support and surprises: molecular phylogeny of the land snail superfamily Orthalicoidea using a three-locus gene analysis with a divergence time analysis and ancestral area reconstruction (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde: International Journal of Malacology 141(1): 1-20. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/141/001-020.
  4. 1 2 3 Breure A. S. H. & Mogollón Avila V. (2010). "Well-known and little-known: miscellaneous notes on Peruvian Orthalicidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Zoologische Mededelingen 84. HTM.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Breure A. S. H. & Borrero F. J. (2008). "An annotated checklist of the land snail family Orthalicidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Orthalicoidea) in Ecuador, with notes on the distribution of the mainland species. Zootaxa 1768: 1-40. abstract.
  6. Strebel (1910). Abh. Naturw. Ver. Hamburg 19(3): 16, 20.
  7. Weyrauch (1956). Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 108: 11.
  8. Wurtz C. B. (1947). "A new subgenus, Paeniscutalus, and the anatomy of its type species". The Nautilus 61: 11-17. page 12.
  9. Breure A. S. H. (2011) "Annotated type catalogue of the Orthalicoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Royal Belgian Institute of Sciences, Brussels, with descriptions of two new species". ZooKeys 101: 1–50. doi:10.3897/zookeys.101.1133.

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