Biology:Euplecta

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Short description: Genus of gastropods

Euplecta
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Euplecta indica
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Limacoidei
Superfamily: Helicarionoidea
Family: Ariophantidae
Genus: Euplecta
C. Semper, 1870
Type species
Helix subopaca
L. Pfeiffer, 1853
Synonyms[1]

Nanina (Thysanota) Albers, 1860

Euplecta is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Ariophantidae.[1]

These snails are restricted to South India and Sri Lanka.[2]

More than eighty species are recognized according to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS).[3]

Species

  • Euplecta acalles (Pfeiffer, 1857)
  • Euplecta acuducta (Benson, 1850)
  • Euplecta albizonata (Dohrn, 1858)
  • Euplecta apicata (Blanford, 1870)
  • Euplecta baconi (Benson, 1850)
  • Euplecta binoyaensis Godwin-Austen, 1899
  • Euplecta cacuminifera (Benson, 1850)
  • Euplecta colletti (E.R. Sykes, 1897)
  • Euplecta concavospira (L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
  • Euplecta eastlakeana (O.F. von Möllendorff, 1883)
  • Euplecta emiliana (L. Pfeiffer, 1852)
  • Euplecta fluctuosa Blanford, 1901
  • Euplecta foveolata Preston, 1909
  • Euplecta gardneri (L. Pfeiffer, 1846)
  • Euplecta granulifera Blanford, 1901
  • Euplecta herosae Thach & F. Huber, 2018: synonym of Trichochloritis fouresi (Morlet, 1886) (junior synonym)
  • Euplecta huberi Thach, 2018: synonym of Ganesella emma (L. Pfeiffer, 1863) (junior synonym)
  • Euplecta hueae Thach & F. Huber, 2018: synonym of Ganesella rostrella (L. Pfeiffer, 1863) (junior synonym)
  • Euplecta hyphasma (L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
  • Euplecta imperforata Schepman, 1918
  • Euplecta indica (L. Pfeiffer, 1846)
  • Euplecta isabellina (L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
  • Euplecta laevis W.T. Blanford, 1901
  • Euplecta lankaensis H.B. Preston, 1909
  • Euplecta layardi (L. Pfeiffer, 1851)
  • Euplecta mucosa (W. T. Blanford & H. F. Blanford, 1861)
  • Euplecta mucronifera Blanford, 1901
  • Euplecta neglecta (L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
  • Euplecta oribates Blanford, 1901
  • Euplecta partita (L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
  • Euplecta phidias (S.C.T. Hanley & W. Theobald, 1876)
  • Euplecta pingoungensis Godwin-Austen, 1888
  • Euplecta prestoni (H.H. Godwin-Austen, 1897)
  • Euplecta pulchella Blanford, 1905
  • Euplecta rosamonda (W.H. Benson, 1860)
  • Euplecta schneideriana I. Rensch, 1930
  • Euplecta scobinoides E.R. Sykes, 1897
  • Euplecta semidecussata (L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
  • Euplecta subcastor (Beddome, 1891)
  • Euplecta subdecussata (Pfeiffer, 1857)
  • Euplecta subopaca (L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
  • Euplecta travancorica (Benson, 1865)
  • Euplecta trimeni (F.P. Jousseaume, 1894)
  • Euplecta tripilaris (Gredler, 1890)
  • Euplecta turritella (C.B. Adams, 1869)
  • Euplecta verrucula (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)

However, Worldwide Mollusc Species Database described (WMSD)[4]

  • Euplecta adulta (A.R.J.B. Bavay, 1908)
  • Euplecta aylvaus W.L.H. Dohrn
  • Euplecta biserialis Unknown
  • Euplecta divisa (E. Forbes, 1851)
  • Euplecta haematina (O.F. von Möllendorff)
  • Euplecta inclinata (L. Pfeiffer, 1864)
  • Euplecta juvenis (E.A. Smith)
  • Euplecta minor (C. Hedley, 1891)
  • Euplecta rathouisii (P.M. Heude, 1880)
  • Euplecta rosseliana (E.A. Smith, 1889)
  • Euplecta woodlarkensis (C. Hedley, 1891)

References

  • Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q21226012 entry