''Boucardicus'' is a
genus
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of
land snail
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s with an
operculum,
terrestrial gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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s in the family
Alycaeidae .
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Boucardicus Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995564 on 2021-06-20]
It is
endemic
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to
Madagascar
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, consist 199 species and 5 subspecies.
[Balashov I. & Griffiths O. (2015). "Two new species of minute land snails from Madagascar: ''Boucardicus monchenkoi'' sp. nov. and ''B. ambindaensis'' sp. nov. (Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoridae)". '']Zootaxa
''Zootaxa'' is a peer-reviewed scientific mega journal for animal taxonomists. It is published by Magnolia Press (Auckland, New Zealand). The journal was established by Zhi-Qiang Zhang in 2001 and new issues are published multiple times a week ...
''. 4052(2): 237-240. 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 ambindaensis''
* ''
Boucardicus antiquus''
* ''
Boucardicus carylae''
* ''
Boucardicus culminans''
* ''
Boucardicus curvifolius''
* ''
Boucardicus delicatus''
* ''
Boucardicus divei''
* ''
Boucardicus esetrae''
* ''
Boucardicus fidimananai''
* ''
Boucardicus fortistriatus''
* ''
Boucardicus goudoti''
(Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965)
* ''
Boucardicus magnilobatus''
* ''
Boucardicus mahermanae''
* ''
Boucardicus monchenkoi''
* ''
Boucardicus rakotoarisoni''
* ''
Boucardicus randalanai''
* ''
Boucardicus simplex''
* ''
Boucardicus tridentatus''
* ''
Boucardicus victorhernandezi''
* ''
Boucardicus anjarae''
[Emberton K C., Slapcinsky J., Campbell C. A., Rakotondrazafy J. A., Andriamiarison T. N. & Emberton J. D. (2010). "Terrestrial mollusks of Andriantantely Massif, Eastern Madagascar, with descriptions of 36 new species (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda; Pulmonata)". '']Archiv für Molluskenkunde
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Coverage
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'' 139(1): 71-141.
* ''
Boucardicus avo''
* ''
Boucardicus hetra''
* ''
Boucardicus lalinify''
* ''
Boucardicus mahavariana''
* ''
Boucardicus matoatoa''
* ''
Boucardicus menoi''
* ''
Boucardicus peggyae''
* ''
Boucardicus pulchellus''
* ''
Boucardicus tantelyae''
References
Cyclophoridae
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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