Santacharis
Appearance
Santacharis | |
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Shell of Santacharis hullianus (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Suborder: | Helicina |
Superfamily: | Orthalicoidea |
Family: | Bothriembryontidae |
Genus: | Santacharis Iredale, 1927 |
Type species | |
Santacharis hullianus Iredale, 1927 | |
Synonyms[1] | |
Placostylus (Santacharis) Iredale, 1927 |
Santacharis are a genus of very large, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Bothriembryontidae.[1]
Species
[edit]- Santacharis fuligineus (L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
- Santacharis hullianus Iredale, 1927
- Santacharis salomonis (L. Pfeiffer, 1852)
References
[edit]- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Santacharis Iredale, 1927. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=863058 on 2022-05-02
- Neubert, E., Chérel-Mora C. & Bouchet P. (2009). Polytypy, clines, and fragmentation: The bulimes of New Caledonia revisited (Pulmonata, Orthalicoidea, Placostylidae). In P. Grancolas (ed.), Zoologia Neocaledonica 7. Biodiversity studies in New Caledonia. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 198: 37–131.
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