Auriculinella

Auriculinella
	a shell of Auriculinella bidentata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia; clade Euthyneura; clade Panpulmonata; clade Eupulmonata
Superfamily:	Ellobioidea
Family:	Ellobiidae
Subfamily:	Ellobiinae
Genus:	Auriculinella; Winckworth, 1949
Synonyms
	Leuconia Gray, 1840 (Invalid: junior homonym of Leuconia Grant, 1833 [Porifera]; Leucopepla and Leucophytia are replacement names); Leucopepla Peile, 1926 (Replacement name for Leuconia Gray, 1840, non Grant, 1833; invalid: junior homonym of Leucopepla Kirkaldy, 1907); Leucophytia Winckworth, 1949 (Replacement name for Leuconia Gray, 1840, non Grant, 1833);

Auriculinella is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae.^[3]^[2]

This is a monotypic genus.

Species[edit]

The only species within the genus Leucophytia is:

^ Winckworth R. (1949). "A new name for Leuconia Gray". Journal of Conchology 23: 38. London.
^ ^a ^b Gofas, S. (2012). Auriculinella Tausch, 1886. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137923 on 2012-08-19
^ Leucophytia Winckworth, 1949. AnimalBase, accessed 16 May 2010.

Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213

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