Rhinus

Genus of gastropods

Rhinus

Shell of Rhinus pubescens (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Order:  | Stylommatophora
Suborder:  | Helicina
Superfamily:  | Orthalicoidea
Family:  | Simpulopsidae
Genus:  | Rhinus
Type species
Helix (Cochlogena) heterotricha S. Moricand, 1836

Synonyms

Bulimulus (Rhinus) E. von Martens

Rhinus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Simpulopsidae.[1]

## Species

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Species within the genus Rhinus include:

* Rhinus angosturensis (Gruner, 1841)
* Rhinus argentinus (Ancey, 1901)
* Rhinus botocudus Simone & Salvador, 2016
* Rhinus ciliatus (Gould, 1846)
* Rhinus constrictus (L. Pfeiffer, 1841)
* Rhinus durus (Spix, 1827)
* Rhinus evelinae Leme, 1986
* Rhinus felipponei (Ihering, 1928)
* Rhinus heterotrichus (Moricand, 1836)
* Rhinus koseritzi (Clessin, 1888)
* Rhinus obeliscus F. Haas, 1936
* Rhinus ovulum (Reeve, 1849)
* Rhinus pubescens (Moricand, 1846)
* Rhinus rochai (F. Baker, 1914)
* Rhinus scobinatus (Wood, 1828)
* Rhinus suturalis (F. Baker, 1914)
* Rhinus taipuensis (F. Baker, 1914)
* Rhinus thomei (Weyrauch, 1967)
* Rhinus velutinohispidus (Moricand, 1836)

Species brought into synonymy

* Rhinus heterogrammus (Moricand, 1836): synonym of Protoglyptus heterogramma (S. Moricand, 1836)
* Rhinus longisetus (Moricand, 1846): synonym of Protoglyptus longiseta (S. Moricand, 1846)

## References

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1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Rhinus E. von Martens, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=877284 on 2021-02-20

* Moricand S. 1846, 1876. Troisième supplément au Mémore sur les coquilles terrestres et fluviatiles de la province de Bahia envoyées par M. Blanchet. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d’Histoire Naturelle de Genève 11: 147-160
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rhinus.

* Albers, J. C.; Martens, E. von. (1860). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet von Joh. Christ. Albers. Ed. 2. Pp. i-xviii, 1-359. Leipzig: Engelman
* Breure, A. S. H. & Araujo, R. (2017). The Neotropical land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) collected by the “Comisión Científica del Pacífico.”. PeerJ. 5, e3065

Taxon identifiers

Rhinus|

* Wikidata: Q27992063
* Wikispecies: Rhinus
* CoL: 7PFR6
* IRMNG: 1298238
* WoRMS: 877284