Coptocheilus is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Pupinellinae of the family Pupinidae.[1]

Coptocheilus
Shell of Coptocheilus maunautim (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Pupinidae
Genus: Coptocheilus
Gould, 1862
Type species
Cyclostoma altum G. B. Sowerby I, 1842
Synonyms[1]
  • Coptochilus F. Sandberger, 1871 (invalid: unjustified emendation of Coptocheilus and junior homonym of Coptochilus Amyot & Serville, 1843 [Hemiptera].)
  • Megalomastoma (Coptochilus) F. Sandberger, 1871
  • Pinteria Varga, 1972
  • Schistoloma Kobelt, 1902 (unnecessary replacement name)
  • Schistoloma (Hololoma) Bartsch, 1915
  • Schistoloma (Schistoloma) Kobelt, 1902

Species

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Species within the genus Coptocheilus include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Coptocheilus altum (G. B. Sowerby I, 1842): synonym of Coptocheilus altus (G. B. Sowerby I, 1842) (incorrect gender ending for Coptocheilus altus (G. B. Sowerby I, 1842))
  • Coptocheilus pauperculus (G. B. Sowerby I, 1850): synonym of Coptocheilus funiculalus (Benson, 1838) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  • Coptocheilus perakensis Fulton, 1903: synonym of Schistoloma sumatranum (Dohrn, 1881): synonym of Coptocheilus sumatranus Dohrn, 1881 (junior synonym)

References

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  1. ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Coptocheilus Gould, 1862. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=998541 on 2021-06-19
  • Varga. A. (1972). Neue Schnecken-Arten aus Vietnam (Gastropoda, Cyclophoridae). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici. 64: 133–137.
  • Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
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