Leucocharis is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Placostylinae of the family Bothriembryontidae.[1]
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| Shell of Leucocharis pancheri (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Helicina |
| Superfamily: | Orthalicoidea |
| Family: | Bothriembryontidae |
| Genus: | Leucocharis Pilsbry, 1900 [1] |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Placostylus (Leuchocharis) (lapsus) | |
Species
editSpecies within the genus Leucpcharis include: (extinct species are marked with a dagger †)
- Leucocharis loyaltyensis (Souverbie, 1879)
- Leucocharis pancheri (Crosse, 1870)
- Leucocharis porphyrocheila Dautzenberg & Bernier, 1901
References
edit- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Leucocharis Pilsbry, 1900. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=863067 on 2021-05-04
- Neubert, E., Chérel-Mora C. & Bouchet P. (2009). Polytypy, clines, and fragmentation: The bulimes of New Caledonia revisited (Pulmonata, Orthalicoidea, Placostylidae). In P. Grancolas (ed.), Zoologia Neocaledonica 7. Biodiversity studies in New Caledonia. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 198: 37–131.
External links
edit- Nomenclator Zoologicus info
- Pilsbry, H. A. (1900). Manual of conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Ser. 2, Pulmonata. Vol. 13: Australasian Bulimulidae: Bothriembryon, Placostylus. Helicidae: Amphidromus. pp 1-253, pls 1-72. Philadelphia, published by the Conchological Section, Academy of Natural Sciences
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