Plectopylis repercussa is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Plectopylidae.[1]
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Species: | P. repercussa
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| Plectopylis repercussa (Gould, 1856)
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Plectopylis bensoni is the type species of the genus Plectopylis. The specific name bensoni is in honour of malacologist William Henry Benson.
Distribution edit
This snail occurs in Myanmar.
References edit
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Plectopylis repercussa (Gould, 1856). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1327859 on 2021-03-09
External links edit
- Gould, A. A. (1856). Descriptions of new species of shells. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 6: 11-16
- Pfeiffer, L. (1845). Uebersicht der mit inneren Lamellen versehenen Helix-Arten. Zeitschrift füt Malakozoologie. 2: 81–87.
- Gude, G. K. (1914). Mollusca-II. Trochomorphidae-Janellidae. In: Shipley, A. E. & Marshall, G. A. K. (eds.): The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. XII + 520 pp. London (Taylor & Francis)
- Gude, G. K. (1899). Notes on some specimens of Plectopylis. The Journal of Malacology. 7(4): 91
- Páll-Gergely, B. (2018). Systematic revision of the Plectopylinae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Plectopylidae). European Journal of Taxonomy. (455): 1–114.
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