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Forbesopomus Bequaert & Clench 1937

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Genus FORBESOPOMUS Bequaert & Clench, 1937

FORBESOPOMUS Bequaert & Clench, 1937: 53. Type species: Forbesopomus atalanta Bequaert & Clench, 1937, by original designation.

Not mentioned by Berthold (1991). As for Afropomus, the gender of Forbesopomus is feminine.

Notes

Published as part of Cowie, Robert H., 2015, The recent apple snails of Africa and Asia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: Afropomus, Forbesopomus, Lanistes, Pila, Saulea): a nomenclatural and type catalogue. The apple snails of the Americas: addenda and corrigenda, pp. 1-92 in Zootaxa 3940 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3940.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/288204

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Bequaert & Clench
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Order
Architaenioglossa
Family
Ampullariidae
Genus
Forbesopomus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Forbesopomus Bequaert, 1937 sec. Cowie, 2015

References

  • Bequaert, J. C. & Clench, W. J. (1937) Forbesopomus, a new genus in the family Pilidae (Ampullariidae), from the Philippine Islands. Proceedings of the New England Zoological Club, 16, 53 - 56, pl. 2. [17 July; pp. 53, 55]
  • Berthold, T. (1991) Vergleichende Anatomie, Phylogenie und historische Biogeographie der Ampullariidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg, NF, 29, 1 - 256.