Opisthosiphon

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| taxon = Opisthosiphon

| image_caption = Opisthosiphon moreletianum (Petit de la Saussaye, 1850)

| image = Naturalis_Biodiversity_Center_-_RMNH.MOL.161450_-_Opisthosiphon_moreletianum_(Petit_de_la_Saussaye,_1850)_-_Annulariidae_-_Mollusc_shell.jpeg

| authority = W. H. Dall, 1905Dall W. H. (1905). "An arrangement of the American Cyclostomatidae,

with a revision of the nomenclature". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 6: [https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofmal164190415mala/#page/208/mode/2up 208]–210.

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  • 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

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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:

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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.

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Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Opisthosiphon:{{Cite web |title=WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Opisthosiphon Dall, 1905 |url=https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995698 |access-date=2023-06-27 |website=www.marinespecies.org}}

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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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Category:Pomatiidae

Category:Taxa named by William Healey Dall

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