Moricandia (gastropod)
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| Shell of Moricandia dubiosa (syntype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Helicina |
| Superfamily: | Orthalicoidea |
| Family: | Odontostomidae |
| Genus: | Moricandia [Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1898 |
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Odontostomus (Moricandia) Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1898 | |
Moricandia is a genus of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Odontostomidae.[1]
Species[edit]
- Moricandia angulata (Wagner, 1827)
- Moricandia auriscervina (A. Férussac, 1821)
- Moricandia bouvieri (Dautzenberg, 1896)
- Moricandia dubiosa (Jay, 1839)
- Moricandia nasuta (E. von Martens, 1885)
- Moricandia tolerata (Fulton, 1903)
- Moricandia willi (Dohrn, 1883)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Moricandia parallela (L. Pfeiffer, 1857): synonym of Bahiensis occultus (Reeve, 1849) (junior synonym)
References[edit]
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Moricandia Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1898. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995345 on 2021-02-12
- Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
External links[edit]
Media related to Moricandia (Odontostomidae) at Wikimedia Commons- Pilsbry, H. A. (1898). Notes on the genus Odontostomus. The Nautilus. 12: 57-58
- Breure, A. S. H. & Araujo, R. (2017). The Neotropical land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) collected by the “Comisión Científica del Pacífico.”. PeerJ. 5, e3065
