Lucerna (gastropod)
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''Lucerna'' is a
genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of air-breathing
land snail A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...
s,
terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial. Terrestrial may also refer to: * Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on o ...
pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...
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 Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000  extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...
s in the subfamily Lucerninae of the family
Pleurodontidae Pleurodontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Pleurodontidae Ihering, 1912. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Spe ...
.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Lucerna Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=998930 on 2021-02-13


Species

Species within the genus ''Lucerna'' include: * '' Lucerna bainbridgii'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1845) * †'' Lucerna bernardi'' (Kimball, 1947) * †'' Lucerna bowdeniana'' (Simpson, 1895) * '' Lucerna chemnitziana'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1845) * '' Lucerna lamarckii'' (Férussac, 1821) * '' Lucerna lucerna'' (O. F. Müller, 1774) * '' Lucerna mora'' (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833) * ''
Lucerna subacuta Lucerna may refer to: *Lucerna, Ocotepeque, a municipality in Honduras * Lucerne, a city in Switzerland * Lucerna (cattle) * ''Lucerna'' (gastropod), a genus of snails in the family Pleurodontidae * '' Lucerna (play)'', a play by Alois Jirásek * ...
'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1867) * '' Lucerna sublucerna'' Pilsbry, 1889 * ''
Lucerna vacillans Lucerna may refer to: *Lucerna, Ocotepeque, a municipality in Honduras * Lucerne, a city in Switzerland * Lucerna (cattle) * Lucerna (gastropod), ''Lucerna'' (gastropod), a genus of snails in the family Pleurodontidae * ''Lucerna (play)'', a play b ...
'' Vendreyes, 1902 ;Synonyms: * ''Lucerna (Lucidula)'' Swainson, 1840: synonym of '' Pleurodonte'' Fischer von Waldheim, 1807


References


External links


Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. London, Longman. viii + 419 pp

Sei M., Robinson D.G., Geneva A.J. & Rosenberg G. (2017). Doubled helix: Sagdoidea is the overlooked sister group of Helicoidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 122(4): 697-728
{{Taxonbar, from=Q105405200 Pleurodontidae Gastropod genera