Pycnoptychia

Pycnoptychia is a genus of a land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Urocoptidae.[2]

Pycnoptychia
Shell of Pycnoptychia humboldtii johnsoni (syntype at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Urocoptoidea
Family:
Urocoptidae
Genus:
Pycnoptychia

Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1898[1]

Distribution

This genus lives in Cuba.[2]

Ecology

Species in the genus Pycnoptychia are a ground dwelling species in Cuba.[3]

Species

Species in the genus Pycnoptychia include:

  • Pycnoptychia amicorum Torre & Bartsch, 2008[2]
  • Pycnoptychia humboldtii (Pfeiffer, 1840)[2]
  • Pycnoptychia oviedoiana (d’Orbigny, 1842)[2]
  • Pycnoptychia peraffinis (Pilsbry, 1903)[2]
  • Pycnoptychia scaeva (Gundlach in Pfeiffer, 1863)[2]
  • Pycnoptychia shuttleworthiana (Poey, 1856)[2]
  • Pycnoptychia strangulata (Poey, 1856)[2]
  • Pycnoptychia striatella (Wright in Pfeiffer, 1864)[2]
  • Pycnoptychia torrei (Arango, 1876)[2]
  • Pycnoptychia trina Torre & Bartsch, 2008[2]

References
  1. Pilsbry H. A. & Vanatta E. G. (1898). Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 1898: 271, 275.
  2. "Mollusca" Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
  3. Rios O. M. & Quinta M. H. (2010). "Larval Feeding Habits of the Cuban Endemic Firefly Alecton discoidalis Laporte (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)". Psyche 2010, Article ID 149879, 5 pages, doi:10.1155/2010/149879.
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