''Lucidella'' is a
genus
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of
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 with an
operculum,
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 ...
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 subfamily
Vianinae
Vianinae is a subfamily of tropical land snail, a terrestrial animal, terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Helicinidae.
Species
According to the World Register of Marine Species, the following genera are accepted within ''Vianinae'':
...
of the family
Helicinidae
Helicinidae is a family of small tropical land snails, terrestrial operculate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicinoidea.
Name
These snails are not at all closely related to the air-breathing land snails, despite a superficial simila ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Lucidella Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996465 on 2021-05-16]
Distribution
Distribution of the genus include
Central America
Central America is a subregion of North America. Its political boundaries are defined as bordering Mexico to the north, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest. Central America is usually ...
and Caribbean:
*
Dominica
Dominica, officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island country in the Caribbean. It is part of the Windward Islands chain in the Lesser Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean Sea. The capital, Roseau, is located on the western side of t ...
- one undescribed species
* Jamaica - 12 species
* Cuba - 4 species: ''
Lucidella granulum'', ''
Lucidella granum'', ''
Lucidella rugosa'', ''
Lucidella tantilla''.
*
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. It shares a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and ...
- 1 specie:
Lucidella beatensis
*
Haiti
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican ...
- At least three undetermined species.
* From Mexico to
Costa Rica
Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in Central America. It borders Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the northeast, Panama to the southeast, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, as well as Maritime bo ...
- ''
Lucidella lirata''
[Richling I. (2004). "Classification of the Helicinidae: Review of morphological characteristics based on a revision of the Costa Rican species and application to the arrangement of the Central American mainland taxa (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Neritopsina)". '']Malacologia
''Malacologia'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of malacology, the study of mollusks. The journal publishes articles in the fields of molluscan systematics, ecology, population ecology, genetics, molecular genetics, evolution, an ...
'' 45(2): 195-440
abstract
/ref>[ Barrientos Z. (2003). "Lista de especies de moluscos terrestres (Archaeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda, Archaeopulmonata, Stylommatophora, Soleolifera) informadas para Costa Rica". '']Revista de Biología Tropical
The ''Revista de Biología Tropical'' is a bilingual open access scientific journal published by the University of Costa Rica covering research in the field of tropical biology and conservation biology. It was established in 1953. It is indexed and ...
'' 51(Suppl. 3): 293-304
PDF
* Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, ...
[Thompson F. G. (2008). "An Annotated Checklist and Bibliography of the Land and Freshwater Snails of Mexico and Central America". 903 p. Available: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/malacology/mexico-central_america_snail_checklist/ nline: 16 June 2008]
* South FloridaFrench Guiana
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Species
Thompson (2008) recognized four subgenera:
''Lucidella'' Swainson, 1840, '' Poeniella'' H. B. Baker, 1923, '' Lidsleya'' Chitty, 1857, '' Poenia'' H. & A. Adams, 1856.
But Rosenberg & Muratov (2006)[Rosenberg G. & Muratov I. V. (2006). "Status Report on the Terrestrial Mollusca of Jamaica". '''' 155(1): 117-161. .][Rosenberg G. & Muratov I. V. (last update 11 August 2005)]
"Recent terrestrial molluscs of Jamaica"
accessed 17 May 2010.
** ''Lucidella aureola montegoensis'' Brown, 1913["Mollusca"](_blank)
. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
* '' Lucidella granum'' (Pfeiffer, 1856)
ITIS
The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) is an American partnership of federal agencies designed to provide consistent and reliable information on the taxonomy of biological species. ITIS was originally formed in 1996 as an interagenc ...
, accessed 17 May 2010.
*
''Lucidella'' sp. from Dominica[Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". '']Zoologische Mededelingen
''Zoologische Mededelingen'' was a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal publishing papers and monographs on animal systematics. The publisher was the National Museum of Natural History Naturalis in the Netherlands. The first issue appeared ...
'' 83 http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a13
References
Further reading
* Boss K. J. & Jacobson M. K. (1974). "Monograph of the genus ''Lucidella'' in Cuba (Prosobranchia: Helicinidae)". ''Occasional Papers on Mollusks'
4 481–27.
* Boss K. J. & Jacobson M. K. (1974). "Catalogue of the taxa of ''Lucidella'' (Prosobranchia: Helicinidae)". ''Occasional Papers on Mollusks'' 4: 4929–38.
*
Pilsbry H. A. (1928). "Review of the species of ''Lucidella'' belonging to the subgenus ''Poeniella'' (Helicinidae) of Haiti and Santo Domingo". ''
'' 80: 479–482, plate 27.
External links
* http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=Lucidella
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Helicinidae
Gastropod genera