Plectopylis

Plectopylis is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Plectopylidae.

Plectopylis
Plectopylis bensoni shells
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Plectopyloidea
Family:
Plectopylidae
Genus:
Plectopylis

Benson, 1860[1]
Diversity
14 species

Plectopylis is the type genus of the family Plectopylidae.[2]

Species

Species in the genus Plectopylis include:

  • Plectopylis bensoni (Gude, 1914) - type species
  • Plectopylis anguina (Gould, 1847)
  • Plectopylis cairnsi (Gude, 1898)
  • Plectopylis cyclaspis (Benson, 1859) - synonym: Plectopylis revoluta Pfeiffer, 1867
  • Plectopylis feddeni (W. Blanford, 1865)
  • Plectopylis karenorum (W. Blanford, 1865)
  • Plectopylis goniobathmos (Ehrmann, 1922)
  • Plectopylis leucochila (Gude, 1897)
  • Plectopylis linterae (Möllendorff, 1897)
  • Plectopylis lissochlamys (Gude, 1897)
  • Plectopylis magna (Gude, 1897)
  • Plectopylis ponsonbyi (Godwin-Austen, 1888)
  • Plectopylis repercussa (Gould, 1856)
  • Plectopylis woodthorpei (Gude, 1899)

References
  1. Benson W. H. (1860). "Notes on Plectopylis, a group a Helicidae distinguished by several internal plicate ephiphragms; with the characters of a new species". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3)5: 243-247. page 243.
  2. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
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