Moricandia (gastropod)

Moricandia
Shell of Moricandia fusiformis (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Helicina
Superfamily:	Orthalicoidea
Family:	Cyclodontinidae
Genus:	Moricandia [Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1898
Synonyms
Odontostomus (Moricandia)Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1898

Moricandia is a genus of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Cyclodontinidae. ^[1]

Species

• Moricandia angulata (Wagner, 1827)
• Moricandia auriscervina (A. Férussac, 1821)
• Moricandia bouvieri (Dautzenberg, 1896)
• Moricandia fusiformis (Rang, 1831)
• Moricandia nasuta (E. von Martens, 1885)
• Moricandia parallela (L. Pfeiffer, 1857)
• Moricandia tolerata (Fulton, 1903)
• Moricandia willi (Dohrn, 1883)

Species brought into synonymy

• Moricandia dubiosa(Jay, 1839): synonym of Moricandia fusiformis(Rang, 1831)

References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Moricandia Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1898. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995345 on 2021-02-12

• Schileyko, A. A. (1999). Treatise on Recent Terrestrial Pulmonate Molluscs, Part 3: Partulidae, Ailllyidae, Bulimulidae, Orthalicidae, Megaspiridae, Urocoptidae. Ruthenica. Supplement 2: 263-436.
• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017

External links

• Media related to Moricandia (Odontostomidae) at Wikimedia Commons
• Pilsbry, H. A. (1898). Notes on the genus Odontostomus. The Nautilus. 12: 57-58
• Breure, A. S. H. & Araujo, R. (2017). The Neotropical land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) collected by the “Comisión Científica del Pacífico.”. PeerJ. 5, e3065