''Mesomphix'' is a genus of terrestrial
gastropods
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and from the land. Ther ...
belonging to the family
Gastrodontidae
Gastrodontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBas ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Mesomphix Rafinesque, 1819. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995272 on 2021-03-25]
The species of this genus are found in
Europe
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,
North America
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, and
New Zealand
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.
Species
* ''
Mesomphix andrewsae''
(Pilsbry, 1895)
* ''
Mesomphix anurus''
Hubricht, 1962
* ''
Mesomphix bilineatus''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1846)
* ''
Mesomphix capnodes''
(W.G. Binney, 1857)
* ''
Mesomphix cupreus''
(Rafinesque, 1831)
* ''
Mesomphix euryomphala''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1845)
* ''
Mesomphix flora''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1850)
* ''
Mesomphix friabilis''
(W.G. Binney, 1857)
* ''
Mesomphix globosus''
(MacMillan, 1940)
* ''
Mesomphix inornatus''
(Say, 1822)
* ''
Mesomphix latior''
(Pilsbry, 1900)
* ''
Mesomphix lucubratus''
(Say, 1829)
* ''
Mesomphix luisant''
Dourson, 2015
* ''
Mesomphix martensianus''
(Pilsbry, 1903)
* ''
Mesomphix modestus''
(E. von Martens, 1892)
* ''
Mesomphix paradensis''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1860)
* ''
Mesomphix perfragilis''
(Wetherby, 1894)
* ''
Mesomphix perlaevis''
(Pilsbry, 1900)
* ''
Mesomphix pilsbryi''
(Clapp, 1904)
* ''
Mesomphix pittieri''
(Bartsch, 1909)
* ''
Mesomphix ptychoraphe''
(Weinland & Martens, 1859)
* ''
Mesomphix rugeli''
(W.G. Binney, 1879)
* ''
Mesomphix subplanus''
(A. Binney, 1842)
* ''
Mesomphix tuxtlensis''
(Crosse & P. Fischer, 1870)
* ''
Mesomphix vulgatus''
H. B. Baker, 1933
* ''
Mesomphix zonites''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1845)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Mesomphix derochetus''
Hubricht, 1962: synonym of ''Mesomphix vulgatus''
H. B. Baker, 1933
* ''Mesomphix ruidus''
Hubricht, 1958: synonym of ''Mesomphix globosus''
(MacMillan, 1940)
References
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
External links
Rafinesque C.S. (1819). Prodrome. De 70 nouveaux genres d'animaux découverts dans l'intérieur des Etats-Unis d'Amérique, durant l'année 1818. Journal de Physique, de Chimie, d'Histoire Naturelle et des Arts. 88: 417-429Rafinesque C.S. (1831). Enumeration and account of some remarkable natural objects of the cabinet of Prof. Rafinesque, in Philadelphia; being animals, shells, plants, fossils, collected by him in North America between 1816 and 183. Philadelphia. 8 ppIredale, T. (1933). Systematic notes on Australian land shells. Records of the Australian Museum. 19(1): 37-59
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Gastrodontidae
Gastropod genera