Zachrysia

Zachrysia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Zachrysiidae[2]

Zachrysia
A live Zachrysia trinitaria.
Apical view of a shell of Zachrysia provisoria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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
Synonyms
  • Pleurodonte (Zachrysia) Pilsbry, 1894
  • Zachrysia (Auritesta) Pilsbry, 1929· accepted, alternate representation
  • Zachrysia (Chrysias) Pilsbry, 1929· accepted, alternate representation
  • Zachrysia (Megachrysia) Pilsbry, 1929· accepted, alternate representation
  • Zachrysia (Torrechrysias) Bonilla, 1936· accepted, alternate representation
  • Zachrysia (Zachrysia) Pilsbry, 1894· accepted, alternate representation

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

  1. Pilsbry H. A. (1926). Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 78, 71, 77.
  2. Sei, Makiri; Robinson, David G; Geneva, Anthony J; Rosenberg, Gary (23 September 2017). "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.

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