{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Automatic taxobox |image= Naturalis Biodiversity Center - ZMA.MOLL.32528 - Obeliscus carphodes (Pfeiffer, 1852) - Subulinidae - Mollusc shell.jpeg |image_caption= ''Obeliscus carphodes'' preserved shell |taxon= Obeliscus |authority=Beck, 1837<ref>Beck (1837). ''Index Moll. Mus. Ch. Fred.'' (1): 61.</ref> | type_species= ''Helix obeliscus'' <small>S. Moricand, 1834</small> |synonyms_ref= |synonyms= * ''Bulimus (Obeliscus)'' <small>H. Beck, 1837</small> (original rank) * ''Obeliscus (Rectobelus)'' <small>H. B. Baker, 1927</small> accepted, alternate representation |display_parents=3 }}
'''''Obeliscus''''' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Stenogyrinae of the family Achatinidae.<ref name=bank>{{WRMS source|278821|Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: 16 July 2017.|10 January 2019}}</ref><ref name="WoRMS">MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Obeliscus H. Beck, 1837. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=877286 on 23 June 2020</ref>
== Distribution == Species within this genus occur in Brazil,<ref name="Salgado 2003"/> Cuba,...<ref name="ecosis.cu">[http://www.ecosis.cu/cenbio/biodiversidadcuba/fauna/mollusca.htm "Mollusca"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718163216/http://www.ecosis.cu/cenbio/biodiversidadcuba/fauna/mollusca.htm |date=18 July 2011 }}. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.</ref>
== Species == The genus ''Obeliscus'' includes the following species: * ''Obeliscus abbotti'' Vanatta, 1918 * ''Obeliscus acicularis'' Aguayo & Jaume, 1957<ref name="ecosis.cu"/> * ''Obeliscus agassizi'' Pilsbry, 1906<ref name="Salgado 2003"/> * ''Obeliscus angustatus'' (Gundlach, 1856)<ref name="ecosis.cu"/> * ''Obeliscus bacillus'' (Pfeiffer, 1861)<ref name="ecosis.cu"/> * ''Obeliscus bacterionides'' (d’Orbigny, 1835)<ref>[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sthefane_D_avila/publication/340815583_Rediscovery_of_Obeliscus_agassizi_Pilsbry_1906_Gastropoda_Subulinidae_Obeliscinae_annotated_checklist_of_species_of_Obeliscus_Beck_1837_and_first_description_of_the_anatomy_for_the_genus/links/5e9f03a44585150839f00a49/Rediscovery-of-Obeliscus-agassizi-Pilsbry-1906-Gastropoda-Subulinidae-Obeliscinae-annotated-checklist-of-species-of-Obeliscus-Beck-1837-and-first-description-of-the-anatomy-for-the-genus.pdf D'Avila et al. Rediscovery of Obeliscus agassizi Pilsbry, 1906 (Gastropoda, Subulinidae, Obeliscinae), annotated checklist of * Of Obeliscus Beck, 1837 and first description of the anatomy for the genus; Zoosystema 2020 42 (2)]</ref> * ''Obeliscus basilissa'' Aguayo & Jaume, 1954<ref name="ecosis.cu"/> * ''Obeliscus binneyi'' Pilsbry, 1906<ref name="ecosis.cu"/> * ''Obeliscus blandianus'' Pilsbry, 1906<ref name="ecosis.cu"/> * ''Obeliscus boitata'' Simone & Salvador, 2016 * ''Obeliscus carphodes'' (Pfeiffer, 1852)<ref name="Salgado 2003"/> * ''Obeliscus clavus''<ref name="ecosis.cu"/> ** ''Obeliscus clavus flavus'' Pilsbry, 1906<ref name="ecosis.cu"/> * ''Obeliscus columella'' (Philippi, 1844)<ref name="Salgado 2003"/> * ''Obeliscus gonostoma'' (Gundlach in Pfeiffer, 1863)<ref name="ecosis.cu"/> * ''Obeliscus gundlachi'' (Pfeiffer, 1863)<ref name="ecosis.cu"/> * ''Obeliscus homalogyrus'' (Shuttleworth in Pfeiffer, 1851)<ref name="ecosis.cu"/> * ''Obeliscus lata'' Gundlach in Pilsbry, 1905<ref name="ecosis.cu"/> * ''Obeliscus latispira'' Pilsbry, 1944 * ''Obeliscus maximus'' (Poey, 1854)<ref name="ecosis.cu"/> * ''Obeliscus microstoma'' (Gundlach in Pfeiffer, 1863)<ref name="ecosis.cu"/> * ''Obeliscus moderatus'' Pilsbry, 1933 * ''Obeliscus obeliscus'' <small>(Moricand, 1833)</small><ref name="Salgado 2003"/> * ''Obeliscus paradoxus'' (Arango, 1881)<ref name="ecosis.cu"/> * ''Obeliscus pattalus'' Pilsbry, 1906<ref name="Salgado 2003"/> * ''Obeliscus peregrinus'' (Pfeiffer, 1855) * ''Obeliscus petricola'' Aguayo & Jaume, 1957<ref name="ecosis.cu"/> * ''Obeliscus planospirus'' (Pfeiffer, 1852)<ref name="Salgado 2003"/> * ''Obeliscus saugeti'' Aguayo & Jaume, 1957<ref name="ecosis.cu"/> * ''Obeliscus strictus'' (Poey, 1853)<ref name="ecosis.cu"/> * ''Obeliscus subuliformis'' <small>(Moricand, 1836)</small><ref name="Salgado 2003">{{in lang|pt}} Salgado N. C. & Coelho A. C. S. (2003). "Moluscos terrestres do Brasil (Gastrópodes operculados ou não, exclusive Veronicellidae, Milacidae e Limacidae)". ''Revista de Biología Tropical'' '''51'''(Suppl. 3): 149–189. (with English abstract), [http://www.biologia.ucr.ac.cr/rbt/attachments/suppls/sup51-3%20malacol/10-CAMPOS_42.pdf PDF] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004085748/http://www.biologia.ucr.ac.cr/rbt/attachments/suppls/sup51-3%20malacol/10-CAMPOS_42.pdf |date=4 October 2011 }}.</ref> * ''Obeliscus swiftianus'' (Pfeiffer, 1852)<ref name="ecosis.cu"/> * ''Obeliscus sylvaticus'' (Spix, 1827)<ref name="Salgado 2003"/> * ''Obeliscus virescens'' (Da Costa, 1898) ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Obeliscus blandi'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1854): synonym of ''Coeliaxis blandi'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1854) * ''Obeliscus brunneus'' A. <small>Adams, 1854</small>: synonym of Colsyrnola brunnea <small>(A. Adams, 1854)</small> * ''Obeliscus cuneus'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1852): synonym of ''Protobeliscus cuneus'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1852) (basionym) * ''Obeliscus jousseaumei'' Cousin, 1887: synonym of ''Protobeliscus jousseaumei'' (Cousin, 1887) * ''Obeliscus lymneaeformis'' Melvill & Ponsonby, 1901: synonym of ''Euonyma lymneaeformis'' (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1901) (original combination) * ''Obeliscus natalensis'' Burnup, 1905: synonym of ''Euonyma natalensis'' (Burnup, 1905) (original combination) * ''Obeliscus octogyrus'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1856): synonym of ''Stenogyra octogyra'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1856) (superseded combination) * ''Obeliscus terebraster'' (Lamarck, 1822): synonym of ''Stenogyra terebraster'' (Lamarck, 1822) (unaccepted combination) * ''Obeliscus tessellatus'' <small>A. Adams, 1854</small>: synonym of ''Longchaeus maculosus'' <small>(Lamarck, 1822)</small> * ''Obeliscus triptyx'' (Pilsbry, 1907): synonym of ''Ischnocion triptyx'' (Pilsbry, 1907)
== See also == * ''Obeliscus'' Gray, 1847 is a synonym of ''Pyramidella''<ref>WoRMS (2011). ''Pyramidella'' Lamarck, 1799. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=160041 on 15 March 2011</ref> * ''Obeliscus'' Popofsky, 1913<ref>Popofsky (1913). ''Dtsch. Südpolar Exped.'' '''14'''(2): 279.</ref> is a genus of protist
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