Boucardicus

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Boucardicus
Madecataulus goudoti (MNHN-IM-2000-31764).jpeg
Shell of Boucardicus goudoti (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Cyclophoridae
Genus: Boucardicus
Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965 [1]
Type species
Acroptychia notabilisE. A. Smith, 1892
Synonyms [2]

MadecataulusFischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965

Boucardicus is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Cyclophoridae. [2]

It is endemic to Madagascar, consist 199 species and 5 subspecies. [3] Type species is Boucardicus notabilis (Smith, 1892). [3] Included species are very diverse, some species are medium-sized (about 10 mm) with conical shell, some are small (height 1.5-3.5 mm) with cylindrical "pupilloid-like" shell. [3]

Species

Species within the genus Boucardicus include:

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References

  1. Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha (1965). Mém. Mus. natn. Hist. nat. Paris (N.S.) (A) 33: 63.
  2. 1 2 MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Boucardicus Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995564 on 2021-06-20
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Balashov I. & Griffiths O. (2015). "Two new species of minute land snails from Madagascar: Boucardicus monchenkoi sp. nov. and B. ambindaensis sp. nov. (Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoridae)". Zootaxa . 4052(2): 237-240. doi : 10.11646/zootaxa.4052.2.9
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Emberton K C., Slapcinsky J., Campbell C. A., Rakotondrazafy J. A., Andriamiarison T. N. & Emberton J. D. (2010). "Terrestrial mollusks of Andriantantely Massif, Eastern Madagascar, with descriptions of 36 new species (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda; Pulmonata)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 139(1): 71-141. doi : 10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/139/071-141