Zachrysia

Zachrysia
A live Zachrysia trinitaria .
Apical view of a shell of Zachrysia provisoria
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Helicina
Superfamily:	Sagdoidea
Family:	Zachrysiidae
Genus:	Zachrysia Pilsbry, 1926 [1]
Type species
Helix (Helicogena) auricoma Férussac, 1821
Synonyms
Pleurodonte (Zachrysia)Pilsbry, 1894 Zachrysia (Auritesta)Pilsbry, 1929· accepted, alternate representation Zachrysia (Chrysias)Pilsbry, 1929· accepted, alternate representation Zachrysia (Megachrysia)Pilsbry, 1929· accepted, alternate representation Zachrysia (Torrechrysias)Bonilla, 1936· accepted, alternate representation Zachrysia (Zachrysia)Pilsbry, 1894· accepted, alternate representation

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

Species

Species within the genus Zachrysia are majorly Cuban endemics and include:

• Zachrysia auricoma (Férussac, 1821)
• Zachrysia baracoensis (Gutiérrez in Pfeiffer, 1858)
• Zachrysia bayamensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
• Zachrysia emarginata (Gundlach in Pfeiffer,. 1859)
• Zachrysia flavicoma Pilsbry, 1929
• † Zachrysia fraterna Ross, 1988
• Zachrysia gibarana Pilsbry, 1929
• Zachrysia guanensis (Poey, 1857)
• Zachrysia guantanamensis (Poey, 1857)
• Zachrysia gundlachiana Pilsbry, 1929
• Zachrysia petitiana (d'Orbigny, 1842)
• Zachrysia proboscidea (L. Pfeiffer, 1856)
• Zachrysia provisoria (Pfeiffer, 1858)
• Zachrysia rangeliana (Pfeiffer, 1854)
• Zachrysia scabrosa (Poey, 1854)
• Zachrysia torrei (Henderson, 1916)
• Zachrysia trinitaria (L. Pfeiffer, 1858)

References

1. Pilsbry H. A. (1926). Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 78, 71, 77.
2. Sei, Makiri; Robinson, David G; Geneva, Anthony J; Rosenberg, Gary (23 September 2017). "Doubled helix: Sagdoidea is the overlooked sister group of Helicoidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 122 (4): 697–728. doi: 10.1093/biolinnean/blx082 . ISSN   0024-4066.

Further reading

• Pilsbry H. A. (1928). "Studies on West Indian Mollusks: The Genus Zachrysia". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 80(1928): 581-606. JSTOR.