Alcadia

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Alcadia
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Alcadia conuloides
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Alcadia maxima
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Neritimorpha
Order: Cycloneritida
Superfamily: Helicinoidea
Family: Helicinidae
Subfamily: Helicininae
Genus: Alcadia
Gray, 1840 [1]
Type species
Helicina majorJ. E. Gray, 1824
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Synonyms

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Alcadia is a genus of tropical and subtropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Helicininae of the family Helicinidae. [2]

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Description

Alcadia differs from the Helicininae in having a slit in front of the aperture, into which is fitted the tooth-like process of the operculum. [1]

Species

Species within the genus Alcadia include:

Synonyms of Alcadia

Synonyms

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References

  1. 1 2 Gray J. E. (1840). Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum: 1-165. London. Alcadia is on the page 42.
  2. MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Alcadia J. E. Gray, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine * At: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996448 on 2024-07-24
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 "Mollusca" Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine . Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
  4. Adams H. & Adams A. (1856). The genera of Recent Mollusca, Helicinidae2: 300-309, 3: pl. 87. London. Idesa is on the page 304.