Rhachistia

Rhachistia
	Drawing of apertural and abapertural view of the shell of Rhachistia rhodotaenia.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Pulmonata
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia; clade Euthyneura; clade Panpulmonata; clade Eupulmonata; clade Stylommatophora; informal group Orthurethra
Superfamily:	Enoidea
Family:	Cerastidae
Genus:	Rhachistia; Connolly, 1922

Rhachistia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Cerastidae.

The genus Rhachistia is found in Eastern Africa and Asia.

Species[]

Species in the genus Rhachistia include:^[2]

Rhachistia aldabrae (von Martens, 1898) - Aldabra banded snail - assumed extinct since 2000, small population found 2014
(von Martens, 1869) (synonym: (von Martens, 1869))^[3]
(E. von Martens, 1860)^[4]
(Connolly)
(von Martens)
(Pfeiffer, 1855)
Connolly
(Kobelt)
(Morelet)
Rhachistia rhodotaenia (von Martens, 1901) - type species of the genus Rhachistia
(C. R. Boettger)

^ Connolly M (1924). "The non-marine mollusca of Portuguese East Africa". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. 12 (1): 105–215. doi:10.1080/00359192409519300.
^ Burgess N. D. & Clarke G. P. (eds.) (2000) Coastal forests of Eastern Africa. IUCN (IUCN Forest Conservation Programme, NORAD (Norway), Conservation International). xiii, 443 pp. ISBN 2-8317-0436-7. Appendix 8.
^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Rhachidina braunsii (E. von Martens, 1869)". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
^ Muratov, Igor V. (2012). "Terrestrial Molluscs of Cabo Delgado and Adjacent Inland Areas of North-Eastern Mozambique". African Invertebrates. 51 (2): 255–288. doi:10.5733/afin.051.0203. ISSN 1681-5556.

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