Caracolus

Caracolus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Solaropsidae.^[3]

Caracolus
Caracolus caracolla
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Helicina
Superfamily:	Sagdoidea
Family:	Solaropsidae
Genus:	Caracolus Montfort, 1810[1]
Type species
Caracolus oculatus Montfort, 1810
Synonyms[2]
Caracolla Montfort, 1810 Carocolla Gray, 1825 (incorrect subsequent spelling or emendation) Corocolla auct. (incorrect subsequent spelling) Discodoma Swainson, 1840 Helix (Caracolla) Albers, 1850 (unaccepted rank) Helix (Caracolus) Montfort, 1810 Helix (Carocolla) (incorrect subsequent spelling) Serpentulus Adams, 1855 Vortex Oken, 1815 (Not available name: Published in a work placed on the Official Index by Opinion 417) Wurtzorbis Webb, 1970

Species

Species within the genus Caracolus include:

• Caracolus albilabris Lamarck, 1816^[2]
• † Caracolus aquilonaris Bishop, 1979
• Caracolus bicolor Lamarck, 1816
• Caracolus bizonalis (Deshayes, 1850)
• Caracolus caracolla Oken^[2][4]
• Caracolus carinatus (Röding, 1798)
• Caracolus carocolla (Linnaeus, 1758)^[2]
• Caracolus cimarron Espinosa, Fernández-Velázquez & Ortea, 2016
• Caracolus marginella (Gmelin, 1791)^[2]

Species brought into synonymy

• Caracolus oculatus Montfort, 1810: synonym of Caracolus carocolla (Linnaeus, 1758)