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Trachia

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

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Trachia
Shell of Trachia limatulata (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Camaenidae
Subfamily: Camaeninae
Genus: Trachia
E. von Martens, 1860
Type species
Helix asperella L. Pfeiffer, 1846
Synonyms
  • Eurystoma Albers, 1850
  • Helix (Eurystoma) Albers, 1850
  • Helix (Trachia) E. von Martens, 1860
  • Planispira (Trachia) E. von Martens, 1860

Trachia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Camaenidae.1

These snails are found from Western Ghats of India, Sri Lanka,2 Sabah and Singapore.34

Species

The following species are recognized.5

  • Trachia albicostis (Pfeiffer, 1860)
  • Trachia asperella (L. Pfeiffer, 1846)
  • Trachia clarus (Godwin-Austen, 1888)
  • Trachia contracta (Benson, 1864)
  • Trachia cordieri (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1908)
  • Trachia crassicostata (Benson, 1848)
  • Trachia diestalmena (Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1908)
  • Trachia emensus (Godwin-Austen, 1888)
  • Trachia fallaciosa (Férussac, 1832)
  • Trachia footei Stoliczka, 1873
  • Trachia hardouini (de Morgan, 1885)
  • Trachia lambineti (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1899)
  • Trachia limatulata (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1908)
  • Trachia nangporensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1860)
  • Trachia nilagirica (Pfeiffer, 1846)
  • Trachia pilisparsa (E. von Martens, 1885)
  • Trachia proxima (Férussac, 1832)
  • Trachia pudica (Godwin-Austen, 1891)
  • Trachia reinachae (C. R. Boettger, 1908)
  • Trachia ruginosa (Férussac, 1832)
  • Trachia serpentinitica Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015
  • Trachia smithi (Bock, 1881)
  • Trachia sordida (L. Pfeiffer, 1842)
  • Trachia trochalia (Benson, 1861)
  • Trachia wrayi (de Morgan, 1885)
Species brought into synonymy
  • Trachia balansai (Morlet, 1886): synonym of Chloritis balansai (Morlet, 1886)
  • Trachia delibrata (Benson, 1836): synonym of Bouchetcamaena delibrata (Benson, 1836) (superseded combination, unaccepted combination )
  • Trachia durandi (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1900): synonym of Chloritis durandi (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1900) (subsequent combination)
  • Trachia froggatti Ancey, 1898: synonym of Westraltrachia froggatti (Ancey, 1898) (original combination)
  • Trachia gabata (A. Gould, 1843): synonym of Chloritis gabata (A. Gould, 1843) (unaccepted combination )
  • Trachia marimberti (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1900): synonym of Chloritis marimberti (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1900) (subsequent combination)
  • Trachia monogramma Ancey, 1898: synonym of Trachia froggatti Ancey, 1898: synonym of Westraltrachia froggatti (Ancey, 1898) (original combination)
  • Trachia nasuta (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1908): synonym of Chloritis nasuta (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1909) (subsequent combination)
  • Trachia norodomiana (Morlet, 1883): synonym of Trichochloritis norodomiana (Morlet, 1883) (subsequent combination)
  • Trachia orthocheila Ancey, 1898: synonym of Westraltrachia derbyi (Cox, 1892) (junior synonym)
  • Trachia penangensis Stoliczka, 1873: synonym of Trichochloritis penangensis (Stoliczka, 1873) (original combination)
  • Trachia pseudomiara (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1908): synonym of Bellatrachia pseudomiara (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1909) : synonym of Trichochloritis pseudomiara (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1909)
  • Trachia vittata (Müller, 1774): synonym of Pseudotrachia vittata (O. F. Müller, 1774) (unaccepted combination)
References

References

  1. "Taxon details – Trachia E. von Martens, 1860". WoRMS. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
  2. "Sri Lankan snail diversity". Sri Lanka Species Database. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
  3. "A sighting of a rare snail, Trachia pudica from Singapore". Retrieved 25 February 2019.
  4. Vermeulen, J. J.; Liew, T. S.; Schilthuizen, M. (2015). "Additions to the knowledge of the land snails of Sabah (Malaysia, Borneo), including 48 new species". ZooKeys (531). Zookeys. 2015 Nov 2;(531):1–139: 1–139. Bibcode:2015ZooK..531....1V. doi:10.3897/zookeys.531.6097. PMC 4668911. PMID 26692803.
  5. "MolluscaBase taxon details - Eurychlamys Godwin-Austen, 1899". MolluscaBase. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
  • Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: 16 July 2017.
  • Schileyko, A. A. (2018). On the genus Trachia auct. (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Camaenidae). Ruthenica. 28(4): 169–174
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