Thaumastus (gastropod)

Thaumastus is a genus of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Megaspiridae.[3][4]

Thaumastus
Apertural and abapertural views of a shell of Thaumastus flori
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Orthalicoidea
Family:
Megaspiridae
Genus:
Thaumastus

Albers, 1860[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Atahualpa Strebel, 1910
  • Bulimulus (Thaumastus) E. von Martens, 1860 (original rank)
  • Bulimus (Orphnus) Albers, 1850 (invalid: junior homonym of Orphnus McLeay, 1819; Orphaicus is a replacement name)
  • Bulimus (Orphus) (misspelling)
  • Bulimus (Thaumastus) E. von Martens, 1860 (now accepted as full genus)
  • Orphnus Albers, 1850
  • Orphaicus Schaufuss, 1869
  • Pachytholus Strebel, 1909
  • Strophocheilus (Thaumastus) E. von Martens, 1860 (now accepted as full genus)
  • Tatutor Jousseaume, 1887
  • Thaumastus (Atahualpa) (junior synonymy)
  • Thaumastus (Thaumastiella) Weyrauch, 1956· accepted, alternate representation
  • Thaumastus (Thaumastus) E. von Martens, 1860· accepted, alternate representation
  • Tholus Strebel, 1909

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Thaumastus includes Colombia,[2] Peru,[5] Ecuador,[6] ...

Species

Species within the genus Thaumastus include:

Subgenus Scholvienia Strebel, 1910[7]

  • Thaumastus bitaeniatus (Nyst, 1845) - synonym: Bulimus bitaeniatus Nyst, 1845 - type species of the subgenus Scholvienia[6]
  • Thaumastus jaspideus (Morelet, 1863)[6]

Subgenus Thaumastiella Weyrauch, 1956[8]

  • Thaumastus sarcochrous (Pilsbry, 1897) - type species of the subgenus Thaumastiella[6]

Subgenus Thaumastus Albers, 1860

  • Thaumastus brunneus Strebel, 1910[6]
  • Thaumastus buckleyi (Higgins, 1872)[6]
  • Thaumastus flori (Jousseaume, 1897)[5][6]
  • Thaumastus hartwegi (Pfeiffer, 1846) - type species of the genus Thaumastus[6]
  • Thaumastus indentatus (Da Costa, 1901)[6]
  • Thaumastus integer (Pfeiffer, 1855)[6]
  • Thaumastus loxostomus (Pfeiffer, 1853)[6]
  • Thaumastus melanocheilus (Nyst, 1845)
  • Thaumastus orcesi Weyrauch, 1967[6]

Subgenus Paeniscutalus Wurtz, 1947[9]

See also
  • Kara was a subgenus of Thaumastus and Kara was elevated to its genus level in 2011.[10]

References
  1. Albers J. C. (1860). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet von Joh. Christ. Albers. 2e Ausgabe: i-xviii, 1-359. Berlin. page 215.
  2. Vera Ardila M. L. (2008). "Lista de los géneros de moluscos terrestres de Colombia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Mesogastropoda y Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Biota Colombiana 9(1): 39-62. PDF.
  3. Breure A. S. H. & Romero P. (2012). "Support and surprises: molecular phylogeny of the land snail superfamily Orthalicoidea using a three-locus gene analysis with a divergence time analysis and ancestral area reconstruction (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde: International Journal of Malacology 141(1): 1-20. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/141/001-020.
  4. MolluscaBase (2018). Thaumastus E. von Martens, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995872 on 2018-11-14
  5. Breure A. S. H. & Mogollón Avila V. (2010). "Well-known and little-known: miscellaneous notes on Peruvian Orthalicidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Zoologische Mededelingen 84. HTM.
  6. Breure A. S. H. & Borrero F. J. (2008). "An annotated checklist of the land snail family Orthalicidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Orthalicoidea) in Ecuador, with notes on the distribution of the mainland species. Zootaxa 1768: 1-40. abstract.
  7. Strebel (1910). Abh. Naturw. Ver. Hamburg 19(3): 16, 20.
  8. Weyrauch (1956). Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 108: 11.
  9. Wurtz C. B. (1947). "A new subgenus, Paeniscutalus, and the anatomy of its type species". The Nautilus 61: 11-17. page 12.
  10. Breure A. S. H. (2011) "Annotated type catalogue of the Orthalicoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Royal Belgian Institute of Sciences, Brussels, with descriptions of two new species". ZooKeys 101: 1–50. doi:10.3897/zookeys.101.1133.
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