Urocyclus

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Urocyclus
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Urocyclus

Gray, 1864 [2]

Urocyclus is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Urocyclidae.

Urocyclus is the type genus of the family Urocyclidae. [1]

Species

Species within the genus Urocyclus include:

Subgenera:

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References

  1. 1 2 Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia . Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN   3-925919-72-4. ISSN   0076-2997.
  2. 1 2 Gray J. E. (1864). "On Urocyclus, a new genus of terrestrial gasteropodous Mollusca from Africa". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1864: 250-251.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 (in French) Dupouy J. (1966). "Urocyclinae de Madagascar (suite). Une espece nouvelle: Urocyclus auratus. Taxonomie du genre Urocyclus s.s. et revision". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle , Paris, 37: 819-832. PDF.
  4. Pollonera C. (1909) "Molluschi : Stylommatophora. Spedizione al Ruwenzori di S.A.R. il principe L. Amadeo di Savoia". Zool. Botan. 1: 181-205, plates 1-5. page 192.