Homorus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Homorus nigellus (MNHN-IM-2000-33296).jpeg |image_caption = Shell of ''Homorus nigellus'' (syntype at MNHN, Paris) |taxon = Homorus |authority = Albers, 1850 |synonyms = ''Achatina (Homorus)'' Albers, 1850 (original rank) |type_species = ''Achatina cyanostoma'' |type_species_authority = L. Pfeiffer, 1842 }}

'''''Homorus''''' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Achatinidae.<ref name="WoRMS">MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Homorus Albers, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995623 on 2021-03-07</ref>

==General characteristics== (Original description in Latin) The shell is thin. It is turretted, with a blunt apex. There are 9 whorls; the body whorl equals one-third of the total length. The columella is somewhat straight and is obliquely truncated. The aperture is oblong-oval. The lip is thin and is acute (sharp).<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11965983 Albers, J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Berlin: Enslin. 262 pp] {{source-attribution}}</ref>

==Species== Species within the genus ''Homorus'' include: * ''Homorus angustatus'' (Jickeli, 1873) (accepted > unreplaced junior homonym) * ''Homorus antorinii'' (Morelet, 1872) * ''Homorus arabicus'' (Connolly, 1941) * ''Homorus cerinus'' Thiele, 1933 * ''Homorus conformis'' Thiele, 1933 * ''Homorus courteti'' Germain, 1907 * ''Homorus cyanostomus'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1842) * ''Homorus dalbaensis'' Thiele, 1933 * ''Homorus discretus'' Thiele, 1933 * ''Homorus djimmaensis'' Thiele, 1933 * ''Homorus ellerbecki'' Kobelt, 1905 * ''Homorus erlangeri'' Kobelt, 1905 * ''Homorus fragilis'' Thiele, 1933 * ''Homorus garamulatae'' Kobelt, 1905 * ''Homorus ginirensis'' Kobelt, 1905 * ''Homorus kaffaensis'' Thiele, 1933 * ''Homorus laevis'' Thiele, 1933 * ''Homorus martensi'' (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1901) * ''Homorus maurus'' Thiele, 1933 * ''Homorus megaspira'' (Mabille, 1884) * ''Homorus meneleki'' (Preston, 1910) * ''Homorus nebulosus'' (Morelet, 1883) * ''Homorus nigellus'' (Morelet, 1867) * ''Homorus nitens'' Thiele, 1933 * ''Homorus nympha'' (Preston, 1910) * ''Homorus omeri'' Connolly, 1928 * ''Homorus opeas'' Pilsbry, 1905 * ''Homorus perrierianus'' (Bourguignat, 1883) * ''Homorus pyramidellus'' (E. von Martens, 1892) * ''Homorus ragazzii'' Pollonera, 1887 * ''Homorus splendens'' (Thiele, 1910) * ''Homorus suaveolatus'' (Jickeli, 1873) * ''Homorus subulatus'' (Jickeli, 1873) * ''Homorus variabilis'' (Jickeli, 1873) * ''Homorus vernicosus'' (Jickeli, 1873) * ''Homorus vicinus'' (Preston, 1910)

;Synonyms: * ''Homorus badius'' (E. von Martens, 1889): synonym of ''Subulona badia'' (E. von Martens, 1889) * ''Homorus burnessi'' Connolly, 1923: synonym of ''Subulona burnessi'' (Connolly, 1923) (superseded combination, basionym * ''Homorus foveolatus'' Preston, 1909: synonym of ''Homorus robinkempi'' Pilsbry, 1919 * ''Homorus massonianus'' Crosse, 1888: synonym of ''Petriola marmorea'' (Reeve, 1850) * ''Homorus obesus'' Kobelt, 1905: synonym of ''Homorus erlangeri'' Kobelt, 1905 * ''Homorus perlucida'' Preston, 1910: synonym of ''Subulina perlucida'' (Preston, 1910) (original combination)

==References== {{Reflist}} * Morelet, A., 1868 ''Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles''. In: Voyage du Dr. Friederich Welwitsch exécuté par ordre du gourvernement portugais dans les royaumes d'Angola et de Benguela, p. 102 pp * Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.

==External links== {{Commons category}} * [https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/916 Pilsbry, H.A. (1919). A review of the land mollusks of the Belgian Congo chiefly based on the collections of the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909-1915. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 40: 1-370, pls I-XXII]

Category:Achatinidae Category:Gastropod genera Category:Taxa named by Johann Christoph Albers