Biology:Bocourtia
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Bocourtia is a genus of tropical air-breathing land snails, a pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Bulimulinae of the family Bulimulidae.[1]
Characteristics
(Original description in Latin) The shell is imperforate and ovate-oblong in shape. It is furrowed with grooves and possesses somewhat ventricose whorls, which are covered by a tawny-colored epidermis. The columella is slightly callous and curved. The aperture is ovate-elliptic, while the outer lip is straight and simple.[2]
Species
Species within the genus Bocourtia include:
- Bocourtia aequatorius (L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
- Bocourtia alauda (Hupé, 1857)
- Bocourtia altorum (Haas, 1951)
- Bocourtia angrandi (Morelet, 1860)
- Bocourtia anthisanensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
- Bocourtia aquila (Reeve, 1848)
- Bocourtia aurea (Breure, 1978)
- Bocourtia badia (G. B. Sowerby I, 1835)
- Bocourtia bicolor (G. B. Sowerby I, 1835)
- † Bocourtia bonariensis Miquel, 2019
- Bocourtia caliginosa (Reeve, 1849)
- Bocourtia coagulata (Reeve, 1849)
- Bocourtia confusa (Reeve, 1848)
- Bocourtia costifer (Pilsbry, 1932)
- Bocourtia costulata (Weyrauch, 1967)
- Bocourtia cotopaxiensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
- Bocourtia culminea (d'Orbigny, 1835)
- Bocourtia cuzcoensis (Weyrauch, 1967)
- Bocourtia edwardsi (Morelet, 1863)
- Bocourtia filaris (L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
- Bocourtia gayi (L. Pfeiffer, 1857)
- Bocourtia hendeensis (Pilsbry, 1926)
- † Bocourtia leonardodavincii Miquel, 2024
- Bocourtia lithoica (d'Orbigny, 1835)
- Bocourtia longitudinalis (Haas, 1955)
- Bocourtia macedoi (Weyrauch, 1967)
- Bocourtia minuta (Breure, 1978)
- Bocourtia nemorensis (Philippi, 1867)
- Bocourtia ochracea (Morelet, 1863)
- Bocourtia peakei (Breure, 1978)
- Bocourtia petiti (L. Pfeiffer, 1846)
- Bocourtia pluto (Crosse, 1869)
- Bocourtia polymorpha (d'Orbigny, 1835)
- Bocourtia promethus (Crosse, 1869)
- Bocourtia purpurata (Reeve, 1849)
- Bocourtia pyramidalis (Breure, 1978)
- Bocourtia revinctus (Hupé, 1857)
- Bocourtia thamnoica (d'Orbigny, 1835)
- Bocourtia tupacii (d'Orbigny, 1835)
- Bocourtia weddellii (Hupé, 1857)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Bocourtia lymnaeformis Rochebrune, 1881: synonym of Bocourtia anthisanensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
References
- ↑ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Bocourtia Rochebrune, 1882. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995854 on 2020-06-14
- ↑ Rochebrune, A.-T., 1881 Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris, 6(7): Paris
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:
- Breure, A. S. H. (1978). Notes on and descriptions of Bulimulidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden. 164: 3–255
- Hylton Scott M.I. (1951). Kuschelenia, nuevo género de Bulimulidae (Moll. Pulmonata). Acta Zoologica Lilloana. 12: 539–543.
- Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
Wikidata ☰ Q96373032 entry
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