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Pycnoptychia

Pycnoptychia is a genus of a land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Urocoptidae.

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Pycnoptychia
Shell of Pycnoptychia humboldtii johnsoni (syntype at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Urocoptidae
Genus: Pycnoptychia
Pilsbry & Vanatta, 18981

Pycnoptychia is a genus of a land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Urocoptidae.2

Distribution

This genus lives in Cuba.2

Ecology

Species in the genus Pycnoptychia are a ground dwelling species in Cuba.3

Species

Species in the genus Pycnoptychia include:

  • Pycnoptychia amicorum Torre & Bartsch, 20082
  • Pycnoptychia humboldtii (Pfeiffer, 1840)2
  • Pycnoptychia oviedoiana (d’Orbigny, 1842)2
  • Pycnoptychia peraffinis (Pilsbry, 1903)2
  • Pycnoptychia scaeva (Gundlach in Pfeiffer, 1863)2
  • Pycnoptychia shuttleworthiana (Poey, 1856)2
  • Pycnoptychia strangulata (Poey, 1856)2
  • Pycnoptychia striatella (Wright in Pfeiffer, 1864)2
  • Pycnoptychia torrei (Arango, 1876)2
  • Pycnoptychia trina Torre & Bartsch, 20082
References

References

  1. Pilsbry H. A. & Vanatta E. G. (1898). Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 1898: 271, 275.
  2. "Mollusca" Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
  3. Rios O. M. & Quinta M. H. (2010). "Larval Feeding Habits of the Cuban Endemic Firefly Alecton discoidalis Laporte (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)". Psyche 2010, Article ID 149879, 5 pages, doi:10.1155/2010/149879.