Boucardicus
| Boucardicus | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda informal group Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Cyclophoroidea |
| Family: | Cyclophoridae |
| Genus: | Boucardicus Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965[1] |
Boucardicus is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Cyclophoridae. It is endemic to Madagascar, consist 199 species and 5 subspecies.[2] Type species is Boucardicus notabilis (Smith, 1892).[2] Included species are very diverse, some species are medium sized (about 10 mm) with conical shell, some are small (height 1.5-3.5 mm) with cylindrical "pupilloid-like" shell.[2]
Species
Species within the genus Boucardicus include:
- Boucardicus notabilis (type species)
- Boucardicus albocinctus
- Boucardicus antiquus
- Boucardicus carylae
- Boucardicus culminans
- Boucardicus curvifolius
- Boucardicus delicatus
- Boucardicus divei
- Boucardicus esetrae
- Boucardicus fidimananai
- Boucardicus fortistriatus
- Boucardicus magnilobatus
- Boucardicus mahermanae
- Boucardicus rakotoarisoni
- Boucardicus randalanai
- Boucardicus simplex
- Boucardicus tridentatus
- Boucardicus victorhernandezi
- Boucardicus anjarae[3]
- Boucardicus avo[3]
- Boucardicus hetra[3]
- Boucardicus lalinify[3]
- Boucardicus mahavariana[3]
- Boucardicus matoatoa[3]
- Boucardicus menoi[3]
- Boucardicus peggyae[3]
- Boucardicus pulchellus[3]
- Boucardicus tantelyae[3]
- Boucardicus monchenkoi[2]
- Boucardicus ambindaensis[2]
References
- ↑ Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha (1965). Mém. Mus. natn. Hist. nat. Paris (N.S.) (A) 33: 63.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Balashov I. & Griffiths O. (2015). "Two new species of minute land snails from Madagascar: Boucardicus monchenkoi sp. nov. and B. ambindaensis sp. nov. (Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoridae)". Zootaxa. 4052(2): 237-240. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4052.2.9
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Emberton K C., Slapcinsky J., Campbell C. A., Rakotondrazafy J. A., Andriamiarison T. N. & Emberton J. D. (2010). "Terrestrial mollusks of Andriantantely Massif, Eastern Madagascar, with descriptions of 36 new species (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda; Pulmonata)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 139(1): 71-141. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/139/071-141
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