''Leuconopsis'' is a
genus
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of minute air-breathing
land snail
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s,
terrestrial
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pulmonate
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gastropod
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mollusc
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s in the
family
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Ellobiidae
Ellobiidae, common name the hollow-shelled snails, is a family of small air-breathing land, marine, and brackish snails; pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Eupulmonata.Bouchet, P. (2012). Ellobiidae. Accessed through: World Register of M ...
.
[Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2012). Leuconopsis Hutton, 1883. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415561 on 2012-09-04]
Species
Species within the genus ''Leucanopsis'' include:
* ''
Leuconopsis inermis''
Hedley, 1901
* ''
Leuconopsis manningi''
Martins, 1996
* ''
Leuconopsis novimundi''
(Pilsbry & McGinty, 1949)
* ''
Leuconopsis obsoleta''
(Hutton, 1873)
* ''
Leuconopsis pacifica''
Oliver, 1915
* ''
Leuconopsis pellucida''
(D. Cooper, 1841)
* † ''
Leuconopsis putealis''
Laws, 1950
* ''
Leuconopsis rapanuiensis''
Rehder, 1980
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Leuconopsis pellucidus''
ic synonym of ''
Leuconopsis pellucida''
(D. Cooper, 1841)
* ''Leuconopsis tatei''
Gatliff, 1905: synonym of ''
Leuconopsis pellucida''
(D. Cooper, 1841)
* ''Leuconopsis victoriae''
Gatliff, 1905: synonym of ''
Leuconopsis pellucida''
(D. Cooper, 1841)
References
Nomenclator Zoologicus info*
Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'',
William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
Spencer H.G., Willan R.C., Marshall B.A. & Murray T.J. (2011) ''Checklist of the Recent Mollusca Recorded from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone''Bruce A. Marshall, ''Molluscan and brachiopod taxa introduced by F. W. Hutton in The New Zealand journal of science''; Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 25, Issue 4, 1995
Ellobiidae
Gastropods of New Zealand
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