Homorus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Achatinidae.

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).

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  • Homorus burnessi Connolly, 1923: synonym of Subulona burnessi (Connolly, 1923) (superseded combination, basionym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)
  • 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.

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