''Plectopylis repercussa'' is a

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

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 ...

, a

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 ...

mollusc Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...

in the family

Plectopylidae Plectopylidae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of large air-breathing land snails, terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Plectopyloidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. P ...

.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Plectopylis repercussa (Gould, 1856). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1327859 on 2021-03-09 ''Plectopylis bensoni'' is the

type species In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...

of the genus ''Plectopylis''. The

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''bensoni'' is in honour of malacologist William Henry Benson.

Distribution

This snail occurs in

Myanmar Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has ...

References

External links

Gould, A. A. (1856). Descriptions of new species of shells. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 6: 11-16

Pfeiffer, L. (1845). Uebersicht der mit inneren Lamellen versehenen Helix-Arten. Zeitschrift füt Malakozoologie. 2: 81–87.

Gude, G. K. (1914). Mollusca-II. Trochomorphidae-Janellidae. In: Shipley, A. E. & Marshall, G. A. K. (eds.): The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. XII + 520 pp. London (Taylor & Francis)

Gude, G. K. (1899). Notes on some specimens of Plectopylis. The Journal of Malacology. 7(4): 91

Páll-Gergely, B. (2018). Systematic revision of the Plectopylinae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Plectopylidae). European Journal of Taxonomy. (455): 1–114.
Plectopylidae Gastropods described in 1914 {{Pulmonata-stub