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Moricandia
Shell of Moricandia dubiosa (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Helicina
Superfamily:	Orthalicoidea
Family:	Odontostomidae
Genus:	Moricandia [Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1898
Synonyms
Odontostomus (Moricandia) Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1898

Moricandia is a genus of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Odontostomidae.

Species

• Moricandia angulata (Wagner, 1827)
• Moricandia auriscervina (A. Férussac, 1821)
• Moricandia bouvieri (Dautzenberg, 1896)
• Moricandia dubiosa (Jay, 1839)
• Moricandia nasuta (E. von Martens, 1885)
• Moricandia tolerata (Fulton, 1903)
• Moricandia willi (Dohrn, 1883)

Species brought into synonymy

• Moricandia parallela (L. Pfeiffer, 1857): synonym of Bahiensis occultus (Reeve, 1849) (junior synonym)

References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Moricandia Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1898. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995345 on 2021-02-12

• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017

External links

• Media related to Moricandia (Odontostomidae) at Wikimedia Commons
• Pilsbry, H. A. (1898). Notes on the genus Odontostomus. The Nautilus. 12: 57-58
• Breure, A. S. H. & Araujo, R. (2017). The Neotropical land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) collected by the “Comisión Científica del Pacífico.”. PeerJ. 5, e3065

• Odontostomidae