Nesiocina is a genus of tropical land snails with an operculum. It is a genus of terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Helicininae of the family Helicinidae.[1]
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| Shell of Nesiocina abdoui (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Neritimorpha |
| Order: | Cycloneritida |
| Superfamily: | Helicinoidea |
| Family: | Helicinidae |
| Genus: | Nesiocina Richling & Bouchet, 2013 |
| Type species | |
| Helicina discoidea Pease, 1868 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Discoidea A. J. Wagner, 1905 (invalid: junior homonym of Discoidea Agassiz, 1834 [Echinodermata]; Nesiocina is a replacement name) | |
Species
edit- Nesiocina abdoui Richling & Bouchet, 2013
- Nesiocina discoidea (Pease, 1868)
- Nesiocina gambierensis Richling & Bouchet, 2013
- Nesiocina grohi Richling & Bouchet, 2013
- Nesiocina mangarevae Richling & Bouchet, 2013
- Nesiocina parvula (Pease, 1868)
- Nesiocina pauciplicata Richling & Bouchet, 2013
- Nesiocina pazi (Crosse, 1865)
- Nesiocina solidula (G. B. Sowerby I, 1839)
- Nesiocina superoperculata Richling & Bouchet, 2013
- Nesiocina trilamellata Richling & Bouchet, 2013
- Nesiocina unilamellata Richling & Bouchet, 2013
- Nesiocina villosa (Anton, 1838)
References
edit- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Nesiocina Richling & Bouchet, 2013. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=856315 on 2021-09-30
External links
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Media related to Nesiocina at Wikimedia Commons- Richling I. & Bouchet P. (2013). Extinct even before scientific recognition: a remarkable radiation of helicinid snails (Helicinidae) on the Gambier Islands, French Polynesia. Biodiversity and Conservation. 22: 2433-2468
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