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Genus of gastropods

Plectopylis
Plectopylis bensoni shells
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Superfamily: Plectopyloidea
Family: Plectopylidae
Genus: Plectopylis
Benson, 1860

Plectopylis is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Plectopylidae.

Plectopylis is the type genus of the family Plectopylidae.

Species

Species in the genus Plectopylis include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Plectopylis bensoni (Gude, 1914): synonym of Plectopylis repercussa (Gould, 1856)
  • Plectopylis goniobathmos (Ehrmann, 1922): synonym of Chersaecia goniobathmos (Ehrmann, 1922) (original combination)
  • Plectopylis leucochilus (Gude, 1897): synonym of Chersaecia leucochila (Gude, 1898) (original combination)
  • Plectopylis lissochlamys (Gude, 1897): synonym of Chersaecia magna (Gude, 1897) (junior synonym)
  • Plectopylis magna (Gude, 1897): synonym of Chersaecia magna (Gude, 1897) (original combination)
  • Plectopylis woodthorpei (Gude, 1899): synonym of Chersaecia woodthorpei (Gude, 1899) (original combination)

References

  1. Benson W. H. (1860). "Notes on Plectopylis, a group a Helicidae distinguished by several internal plicate ephiphragms; with the characters of a new species". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3)5: 243-247. page 243.
  2. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Plectopylis Benson, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=870861 on 2021-03-09
  3. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  • Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.

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