Obeliscus

Obeliscus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Stenogyrinae of the family Achatinidae.^[2][3]

Obeliscus
Obeliscus carphodes preserved shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Achatinina
Superfamily:	Achatinoidea
Family:	Achatinidae
Genus:	Obeliscus Beck, 1837[1]
Type species
Helix obeliscus S. Moricand, 1834
Synonyms
Bulimus (Obeliscus) H. Beck, 1837 (original rank) Obeliscus (Rectobelus) H. B. Baker, 1927 accepted, alternate representation

Distribution

Species within this genus occur in Brazil,^[4] Cuba,...^[5]

Species

The genus Obeliscus includes the following species:

• Obeliscus abbotti Vanatta, 1918
• Obeliscus acicularis Aguayo & Jaume, 1957^[5]
• Obeliscus agassizi Pilsbry, 1906^[4]
• Obeliscus angustatus (Gundlach, 1856)^[5]
• Obeliscus bacillus (Pfeiffer, 1861)^[5]
• Obeliscus bacterionides (d’Orbigny, 1835)^[6]
• Obeliscus basilissa Aguayo & Jaume, 1954^[5]
• Obeliscus binneyi Pilsbry, 1906^[5]
• Obeliscus blandianus Pilsbry, 1906^[5]
• Obeliscus boitata Simone & Salvador, 2016
• Obeliscus carphodes (Pfeiffer, 1852)^[4]
• Obeliscus clavus^[5]
  • Obeliscus clavus flavus Pilsbry, 1906^[5]
• Obeliscus columella (Philippi, 1844)^[4]
• Obeliscus gonostoma (Gundlach in Pfeiffer, 1863)^[5]
• Obeliscus gundlachi (Pfeiffer, 1863)^[5]
• Obeliscus homalogyrus (Shuttleworth in Pfeiffer, 1851)^[5]
• Obeliscus lata Gundlach in Pilsbry, 1905^[5]
• Obeliscus latispira Pilsbry, 1944
• Obeliscus maximus (Poey, 1854)^[5]
• Obeliscus microstoma (Gundlach in Pfeiffer, 1863)^[5]
• Obeliscus moderatus Pilsbry, 1933
• Obeliscus obeliscus (Moricand, 1833)^[4]
• Obeliscus paradoxus (Arango, 1881)^[5]
• Obeliscus pattalus Pilsbry, 1906^[4]
• Obeliscus peregrinus (Pfeiffer, 1855)
• Obeliscus petricola Aguayo & Jaume, 1957^[5]
• Obeliscus planospirus (Pfeiffer, 1852)^[4]
• Obeliscus saugeti Aguayo & Jaume, 1957^[5]
• Obeliscus strictus (Poey, 1853)^[5]
• Obeliscus subuliformis (Moricand, 1836)^[4]
• Obeliscus swiftianus (Pfeiffer, 1852)^[5]
• Obeliscus sylvaticus (Spix, 1827)^[4]
• Obeliscus virescens (Da Costa, 1898)

Species brought into synonymy

• Obeliscus blandi (L. Pfeiffer, 1854): synonym of Coeliaxis blandi (L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
• Obeliscus brunneus A. Adams, 1854: synonym of Colsyrnola brunnea (A. Adams, 1854)
• Obeliscus cuneus (L. Pfeiffer, 1852): synonym of Protobeliscus cuneus (L. Pfeiffer, 1852) (basionym)
• Obeliscus jousseaumei Cousin, 1887: synonym of Protobeliscus jousseaumei (Cousin, 1887)
• Obeliscus lymneaeformis Melvill & Ponsonby, 1901: synonym of Euonyma lymneaeformis (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1901) (original combination)
• Obeliscus natalensis Burnup, 1905: synonym of Euonyma natalensis (Burnup, 1905) (original combination)
• Obeliscus octogyrus (L. Pfeiffer, 1856): synonym of Stenogyra octogyra (L. Pfeiffer, 1856) (superseded combination)
• Obeliscus terebraster (Lamarck, 1822): synonym of Stenogyra terebraster (Lamarck, 1822) (unaccepted combination)
• Obeliscus tessellatus A. Adams, 1854: synonym of Longchaeus maculosus (Lamarck, 1822)
• Obeliscus triptyx (Pilsbry, 1907): synonym of Ischnocion triptyx (Pilsbry, 1907)

See also

• Obeliscus Gray, 1847 is a synonym of Pyramidella^[7]
• Obeliscus Popofsky, 1913^[8] is a genus of protist