''Lucerna'' is a
genus
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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
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Terrestrial may also refer to:
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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 ().
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mollusk
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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 ppSei 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
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Pleurodontidae
Gastropod genera