Lucerna is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Lucerninae of the family Pleurodontidae.[1]
| Lucerna | |
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| Shell of Lucerna lucerna (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Infraorder: | Helicoidei |
| Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
| Family: | Pleurodontidae |
| Genus: | Lucerna Swainson, 1840 |
| Type species | |
| Carocolla acutissima Lamarck, 1822 | |
Species edit
Species within the genus Lucerna include:
- Lucerna bainbridgii (L. Pfeiffer, 1845)
- † Lucerna bernardi (Kimball, 1947)
- † Lucerna bowdeniana (Simpson, 1895)
- Lucerna chemnitziana (L. Pfeiffer, 1845)
- Lucerna lamarckii (Férussac, 1821)
- Lucerna lucerna (O. F. Müller, 1774)
- Lucerna mora (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)
- Lucerna subacuta (L. Pfeiffer, 1867)
- Lucerna sublucerna Pilsbry, 1889
- Lucerna vacillans Vendreyes, 1902
- Synonyms
- Lucerna (Lucidula) Swainson, 1840: synonym of Pleurodonte Fischer von Waldheim, 1807
References edit
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Lucerna Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=998930 on 2021-02-13
External links edit
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- Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. London, Longman. viii + 419 pp
- Sei M., Robinson D.G., Geneva A.J. & Rosenberg G. (2017). Doubled helix: Sagdoidea is the overlooked sister group of Helicoidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 122(4): 697-728