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Zachrysia

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Zachrysia
A live Zachrysia trinitaria.
Apical view of a shell of Zachrysia provisoria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
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:

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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