Pseudotachea is a genus of medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Helicinae of the family Helicidae.[1]
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| Shell of Pseudotachea liturata (syntype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Helicidae |
| Subfamily: | Helicinae |
| Tribe: | Allognathini |
| Genus: | Pseudotachea C. R. Boettger, 1909 |
| Type species | |
| Helix splendida Draparnaud, 1801 | |
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Helix (Pseudotachea) C. R. Boettger, 1909 | |
Like many Helicidae, this genus of snails create and use love darts.
Species
edit- Pseudotachea liturata (L. Pfeiffer, 1851)
- Pseudotachea splendida (Draparnaud, 1801)
- Species inquirendum
- † Pseudotachea torresi (Roman, 1907)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Pseudotachea cotteri (Roman, 1907) †: synonym of Megalotachea cotteri (Roman, 1907) †
- Pseudotachea ogerieni (Delafond & Depéret, 1893) †: synonym of Frechenia ogerieni (Delafond & Depéret, 1893) †
- Pseudotachea tersannensis (Locard, 1878) †: synonym of Megalotachea delphinensis (Fontannes, 1876) † (junior synonym)
References
edit- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Pseudotachea C. R. Boettger, 1909. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996426 on 2021-02-10
- Pfeffer, G. (1930). Zur Kenntnis tertiärer Landschnecken. Geologisch-Paläontologische Abhandlungen, neue Folge. 17(3): 153–380, pl. 15–17.
- Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
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