Santacharis are a genus of very large, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Bothriembryontidae.[1]
| Santacharis | |
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| Shell of Santacharis hullianus (specimen 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: | Santacharis Iredale, 1927 |
| Type species | |
| Santacharis hullianus Iredale, 1927 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Placostylus (Santacharis) Iredale, 1927 | |
Species
edit- Santacharis fuligineus (L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
- Santacharis hullianus Iredale, 1927
- Santacharis salomonis (L. Pfeiffer, 1852)
References
edit- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Santacharis Iredale, 1927. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=863058 on 2022-05-02
- 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.
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