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Boucardicus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Cyclophoridae

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Cyclophoroidea

Rank
  
Genus

Similar
  
Ampelita, Alycaeus, Gulella, Tropidophora, Cyclophoridae

Boucardicus is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Cyclophoridae. It is endemic to Madagascar, consist 199 species and 5 subspecies. Type species is Boucardicus notabilis (Smith, 1892). Included species are very diverse, some species are medium sized (about 10 mm) with conical shell, some are small (height 1.5-3.5 mm) with cylindrical "pupilloid-like" shell.

Species

Species within the genus Boucardicus include:

  • Boucardicus notabilis (type species)
  • Boucardicus albocinctus
  • Boucardicus antiquus
  • Boucardicus carylae
  • Boucardicus culminans
  • Boucardicus curvifolius
  • Boucardicus delicatus
  • Boucardicus divei
  • Boucardicus esetrae
  • Boucardicus fidimananai
  • Boucardicus fortistriatus
  • Boucardicus magnilobatus
  • Boucardicus mahermanae
  • Boucardicus rakotoarisoni
  • Boucardicus randalanai
  • Boucardicus simplex
  • Boucardicus tridentatus
  • Boucardicus victorhernandezi
  • Boucardicus anjarae
  • Boucardicus avo
  • Boucardicus hetra
  • Boucardicus lalinify
  • Boucardicus mahavariana
  • Boucardicus matoatoa
  • Boucardicus menoi
  • Boucardicus peggyae
  • Boucardicus pulchellus
  • Boucardicus tantelyae
  • Boucardicus monchenkoi
  • Boucardicus ambindaensis
  • References

    Boucardicus Wikipedia