Homorus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Achatinidae.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
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).Albers, J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Berlin: Enslin. 262 pp
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Subulona badia (E. von Martens, 1889) Homorus burnessi Connolly, 1923: synonym of Subulona burnessi (Connolly, 1923) (superseded combination, basionym Homorus foveolatus Preston, 1909: synonym of Homorus robinkempi Pilsbry, 1919 Homorus massonianus Crosse, 1888: synonym of Petriola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
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
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