Rachis (gastropod)

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Rachis
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Shell of Rachis venusta (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Pupilloidei
Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Cerastidae
Genus: Rachis
Albers, 1850 [1]
Type species
Bulimus pallens
Jonas, 1843
Synonyms [2]
  • Buliminus (Rachis)Albers, 1850
  • Buliminus (Rhachis)L. Pfeiffer, 1856
  • Bulimus (Rachis)Albers, 1850 (original rank)
  • Bulimus (Rhachis)L. Pfeiffer, 1856 (superseded combination)
  • Ena (Rachisellus)Bourguignat, 1890 (junior synonym)
  • Rachis (Rachis)Albers, 1850
  • RachisellusBourguignat, 1890
  • RhachisL. Pfeiffer, 1856 (invalid: unjustified emendation of RachisAlbers, 1850)

Rachis is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Cerastidae. [2]

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This genus is also spelled as “Rhachis” as a synonym. [3] Rachis is a Latinised version of rhachis (a midrib or ridge) or rhachos (a thorn or thorn bush), both of which are Greek nouns of feminine gender. [2]

Species

Synonyms

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References

  1. ↑ Albers, J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen, nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Berlin: Th. Chr. Fr. Enslin.
  2. 1 2 3 MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Rachis Albers, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995163 on 2022-03-31
  3. ↑ "WMDSB-Cerastidae". Cerastidae.
  4. ↑ Melvill, J. C. & Ponsonby, J. H. (1893). Descriptions of twenty new species of terrestrial and fluviatile Mollusca from South Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 12(68), 103–112.
  5. ↑ Anton, H. E. (1839). Verzeichniss der Conchylien welche sien in der Sammlung. Halle: Eduard Anton.
  6. ↑ "WMDSB-Cerastidae". Rhachis tulearensis.
  7. ↑ Pfeiffer, L. (1855). Description of thirty-eight new species of Helicea, from the collection of H. Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 23, 91–101.
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