Biology:Zachrysia
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Short description: Genus of gastropods
| Zachrysia | |
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| A live Zachrysia trinitaria. | |
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| Apical view of a shell of Zachrysia provisoria | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Helicina |
| Superfamily: | Sagdoidea |
| Family: | Zachrysiidae |
| Genus: | Zachrysia Pilsbry, 1926[1] |
| Type species | |
| Helix (Helicogena) auricoma Férussac, 1821 | |
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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)
- Zachrysia baracoensis (Gutiérrez in Pfeiffer, 1858)
- Zachrysia bayamensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
- Zachrysia emarginata (Gundlach in Pfeiffer,. 1859)
- Zachrysia flavicoma Pilsbry, 1929
- † Zachrysia fraterna Ross, 1988
- Zachrysia gibarana Pilsbry, 1929
- Zachrysia guanensis (Poey, 1857)
- Zachrysia guantanamensis (Poey, 1857)
- Zachrysia gundlachiana Pilsbry, 1929
- Zachrysia petitiana (d'Orbigny, 1842)
- Zachrysia proboscidea (L. Pfeiffer, 1856)
- Zachrysia provisoria (Pfeiffer, 1858)
- Zachrysia rangeliana (Pfeiffer, 1854)
- Zachrysia scabrosa (Poey, 1854)
- Zachrysia torrei (Henderson, 1916)
- Zachrysia trinitaria (L. Pfeiffer, 1858)
References
- ↑ Pilsbry H. A. (1926). Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 78, 71, 77.
- ↑ Sei, Makiri; Robinson, David G; Geneva, Anthony J; Rosenberg, Gary (2017-09-23). "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. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blx082.
Further reading
- Pilsbry H. A. (1928). "Studies on West Indian Mollusks: The Genus Zachrysia". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 80(1928): 581-606. JSTOR.
Wikidata ☰ Q8064036 entry
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