Pleurodonte bainbridgii

Pleurodonte bainbridgii is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pleurodontidae. This species occurs in Jamaica.[2]

Pleurodonte bainbridgii
1868 painting of Pleurodonte bainbridgii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Helicoidea
Family:
Pleurodontidae
Genus:
Pleurodonte
Species:
P. bainbridgii
Binomial name
Pleurodonte bainbridgii
(Pfeiffer, 1845)[1]
Synonyms

Helix bainbridgei var. pretiosa C. B. Adams, 1851 [non Albers, 1850]
Helix spengleriana Pfeiffer, 1847

References
  1. Pfeiffer L. 1845. Descriptions of new species of land snails, from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 13: 43–45.
  2. Rosenberg G. & Muratov I. V. (2006). "Status Report on the Terrestrial Mollusca of Jamaica" Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 155(1): 117-161. doi:10.1635/i0097-3157-155-1-117.1.
  • (June) 1895. The Nautilus. page 13.
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