Zachrysia

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Zachrysia
Zachrysia trinitaria.jpg
A live Zachrysia trinitaria.
Zachrysia provisoria shell.png
Apical view of a shell of Zachrysia provisoria
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Superorder: Eupulmonata
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Superfamily: Sagdoidea
Family: Zachrysiidae
Genus: Zachrysia
Pilsbry, 1926[1]
Type species
Helix (Helicogena) auricoma Férussac, 1821
Synonyms
  • Pleurodonte (Zachrysia) Pilsbry, 1894
  • Zachrysia (Auritesta) Pilsbry, 1929· accepted, alternate representation
  • Zachrysia (Chrysias) Pilsbry, 1929· accepted, alternate representation
  • Zachrysia (Megachrysia) Pilsbry, 1929· accepted, alternate representation
  • Zachrysia (Torrechrysias) Bonilla, 1936· accepted, alternate representation
  • Zachrysia (Zachrysia) Pilsbry, 1894· accepted, alternate representation

Zachrysia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Zachrysiidae[2]

Species[]

Species within the genus Zachrysia are majorly Cuban endemics and include:

  • Zachrysia auricoma (Férussac, 1821)
  • (Gutiérrez in Pfeiffer, 1858)
  • (L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
  • (Gundlach in Pfeiffer,. 1859)
  • Pilsbry, 1929
  • Ross, 1988
  • Pilsbry, 1929
  • (Poey, 1857)
  • (Poey, 1857)
  • Pilsbry, 1929
  • (d'Orbigny, 1842)
  • (L. Pfeiffer, 1856)
  • Zachrysia provisoria (Pfeiffer, 1858)
  • (Pfeiffer, 1854)
  • (Poey, 1854)
  • (Henderson, 1916)
  • Zachrysia trinitaria (L. Pfeiffer, 1858)

References[]

  1. ^ Pilsbry H. A. (1926). Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 78, 71, 77.
  2. ^ Sei, Makiri; Robinson, David G; Geneva, Anthony J; Rosenberg, Gary (23 September 2017). "Doubled helix: Sagdoidea is the overlooked sister group of Helicoidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 122 (4): 697–728. doi:10.1093/biolinnean/blx082. ISSN 0024-4066.

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