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Caseolus

Caseolus
Caseolus bowdichianus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Geomitridae
Subfamily:	Geomitrinae
Tribe:	Geomitrini
Genus:	Caseolus R. T. Lowe, 1852[1]
Synonyms
Caseolus (Caseolus) R. T. Lowe, 1852· accepted, alternate representation Caseolus (Helicomela) R. T. Lowe, 1855· accepted, alternate representation Caseolus (Leptostictea) Mandahl-Barth, 1950· accepted, alternate representation Helix (Caseolus) R. T. Lowe, 1852 Helix (Helicomela) R. T. Lowe, 1855 (basionym) Ochthephila (Caseolus) R. T. Lowe, 1852

Caseolus is a genusofland snails in the family Geomitridae.^[2][3]

The name Caseolus is masculine and means "little cheese",^[4] based on the shape of the shell of this species.

Species[edit]

Species include:^[5]

• Caseolus abjectus R. T. Lowe, 1831
• Caseolus baixoensis Walden, 1983
• Caseolus bowdichianus (Férrusac, 1832)
• Caseolus calculus R. T. Lowe, 1855
• Caseolus calvus R. T. Lowe, 1831
• Caseolus commixtus R. T. Lowe, 1855
• Caseolus consors R. T. Lowe, 1831
• Caseolus galeatus (R. T. Lowe, 1862)
• Caseolus hartungi Albers, 1852
• † Caseolus heberti (Deshayes, 1863)
• Caseolus innominatus J. E. Gray, 1825
• Caseolus leptostictus R. T. Lowe, 1831
• Caseolus pittae (Paiva, 1866)
• Caseolus punctulatus G. B. Sowerby I, 1824
• Caseolus setulosus (R. T. Lowe, 1831)
• † Caseolus sphaerulus R. T. Lowe, 1852
• Caseolus subcalliferus Reeve, 1854

References[edit]

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

External links[edit]

• 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
• 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