Plectopylis
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
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| Genus: | Plectopylis |
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| 14 species | |
Plectopylis is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Plectopylidae.
Plectopylis is the type genus of the family Plectopylidae.[2]
Species
Species in the genus Plectopylis include:
- Plectopylis bensoni (Gude, 1914) - type species
- Plectopylis anguina (Gould, 1847)
- Plectopylis cairnsi (Gude, 1898)
- Plectopylis cyclaspis (Benson, 1859) - synonym: Plectopylis revoluta Pfeiffer, 1867
- Plectopylis feddeni (W. Blanford, 1865)
- Plectopylis karenorum (W. Blanford, 1865)
- Plectopylis goniobathmos (Ehrmann, 1922)
- Plectopylis leucochila (Gude, 1897)
- Plectopylis linterae (Möllendorff, 1897)
- Plectopylis lissochlamys (Gude, 1897)
- Plectopylis magna (Gude, 1897)
- Plectopylis ponsonbyi (Godwin-Austen, 1888)
- Plectopylis repercussa (Gould, 1856)
- Plectopylis woodthorpei (Gude, 1899)
References
- ^ Benson W. H. (1860). "Notes on Plectopylis, a group a Helicidae distinguished by several internal plicate ephiphragms; with the characters of a new species". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3)5: 243-247. page 243.
- ^ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
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