Bocourtia is a genus of tropical air-breathing land snails, a pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Bulimulinae of the family Bulimulidae.[1]

Bocourtia
Shell of Bocourtia anthisanensis (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Superfamily: Orthalicoidea
Family: Bulimulidae
Genus: Bocourtia
Rochebrune, 1882
Type species
Bocourtia lymnaeformis Rochebrune, 1882
Synonyms[1]
  • Bocourtia (Bocourtia) Rochebrune, 1882
  • Bocourtia (Kuschelenia) Hylton Scott, 1951
  • Kuschelenia Hylton Scott, 1951
  • Kuschelenia (Bocourtia) Rochebrune, 1882
  • Kuschelenia (Kuschelenia) Hylton Scott, 1951
  • Kuschelenia (Vermiculatus) Breure, 1978 (junior synonym)
  • Scutalus (Kuschelenia) Hylton Scott, 1951
  • Scutalus (Vermiculatus) Breure, 1978 (junior synonym)

Species edit

Species within the genus Bocourtia include:

Species brought into synonymy

References edit

  1. ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Bocourtia Rochebrune, 1882. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995854 on 2020-06-14
  • Breure, A. S. H. (1978). Notes on and descriptions of Bulimulidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden. 164: 3-255
  • Hylton Scott M.I. (1951). Kuschelenia, nuevo género de Bulimulidae (Moll. Pulmonata). Acta Zoologica Lilloana. 12: 539–543.
  • Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017

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