# Caseolus

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***Caseolus*** is a [genus](/source/Genus) of [land snails](/source/Land_snail) in the family [Geomitridae](/source/Geomitridae).[2][3]

The name *Caseolus* is masculine and means "little cheese",[4] based on the shape of the [shell](/source/Gastropod_shell) of species in this genus.

## Species

Species include:[5]

- *[Caseolus abjectus](/source/Caseolus_abjectus)* R. T. Lowe, 1831
- *[Caseolus baixoensis](/source/Caseolus_baixoensis)* Walden, 1983
- *[Caseolus bowdichianus](/source/Caseolus_bowdichianus)* (Férrusac, 1832)
- *[Caseolus calculus](/source/Caseolus_calculus)* R. T. Lowe, 1855
- *[Caseolus calvus](/source/Caseolus_calvus)* R. T. Lowe, 1831
- *[Caseolus commixtus](/source/Caseolus_commixtus)* R. T. Lowe, 1855
- *[Caseolus consors](/source/Caseolus_consors)* R. T. Lowe, 1831
- *[Caseolus galeatus](/source/Caseolus_galeatus)* (R. T. Lowe, 1862)
- *[Caseolus hartungi](/source/Caseolus_hartungi)* Albers, 1852
- † *[Caseolus heberti](/source/Caseolus_heberti)* (Deshayes, 1863)
- *[Caseolus innominatus](/source/Caseolus_innominatus)* J. E. Gray, 1825
- *[Caseolus leptostictus](/source/Caseolus_leptostictus)* R. T. Lowe, 1831
- *[Caseolus pittae](/source/Caseolus_pittae)* (Paiva, 1866)
- *[Caseolus punctulatus](/source/Caseolus_punctulatus)* G. B. Sowerby I, 1824
- *[Caseolus setulosus](/source/Caseolus_setulosus)* (R. T. Lowe, 1831)
- † *[Caseolus sphaerulus](/source/Caseolus_sphaerulus)* R. T. Lowe, 1852
- *[Caseolus subcalliferus](/source/Caseolus_subcalliferus)* Reeve, 1854

## References

1. [Lowe R. T.](/source/Richard_Thomas_Lowe) (1852). *Ann. Mag. nat. Hist.* (2)**9**: 115.

1. Razkin, Oihana; Gómez-Moliner, Benjamín Juán; Prieto, Carlos Enrique; Martínez-Ortí, Alberto; Arrébola, José Ramón; Muñoz, Benito; Chueca, Luis Javier; Madeira, María José (February 2015). "Molecular phylogeny of the western Palaearctic Helicoidea (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". *Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution*. **83**: 99–117. [doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.11.014](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2014.11.014). [ISSN 1055-7903](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/1055-7903). [PMID 25485783](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25485783)

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Caseolus R. T. Lowe, 1852. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: [http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996327](http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996327) on 2021-02-19

1. ["Caseol us"](http://www.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?stem=Caseol&ending=us). Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid, University of Notre Dame, accessed 15 June 2010.

1. [*Caseolus*.](https://web.archive.org/web/20121022172203/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=428923) Fauna Europaea.

- Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017

## External links

- [Lowe, R. T. (1855 \["1854"\]). Catalogus molluscorum pneumonatorum insularum Maderensium: or a list of all the land and freshwater shells, recent and fossil, of the Madeiran islands: arranged in groups according to their natural affinities; with diagnoses of the groups, and of the new or hitherto imperfectly defined species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 22: 161-208 \[16 March 1855\]; 209-218](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30747564)
- [Lowe, R. T. (1852). Brief diagnostic notices of new Maderan land shells. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (2) 9 (50): 112-120; (2) 9 (52): 275-279. London](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2362893)

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