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Poecilocharis
Shell of Poecilocharis bicolor (paralectotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Helicina
Superfamily:	Orthalicoidea
Family:	Bothriembryontidae
Genus:	Poecilocharis Kobelt, 1891
Synonyms
Aspastus (Poecilocharis) Kobelt, 1891 Placostylus (Poecilocharis) Kobelt, 1891 (original rank)

Poecilocharis are a genus of very large, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Bothriembryontidae.

Species

• Poecilocharis bicolor (Hartman, 1889)
• Poecilocharis turneri (L. Pfeiffer, 1860)

References

1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Poecilocharis Kobelt, 1891. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=863063 on 2022-01-23

• Neubert, E., Chérel-Mora C. & Bouchet P. (2009). Polytypy, clines, and fragmentation: The bulimes of New Caledonia revisited (Pulmonata, Orthalicoidea, Placostylidae). In P. Grancolas (ed.), Zoologia Neocaledonica 7. Biodiversity studies in New Caledonia. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 198: 37-131

External links

• Kobelt, W. (1890-1891). Die Gattung Placostylus Beck. (Bulimus. Neue Folge). In: Küster, H. C.; Kobelt, W., Eds. Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz. Neu herausgegeben und vervollständigt. Ersten Bandes dreizehnte Abtheilung A. 1-142, pls 1-32. Nürnberg: Bauer & Raspe

• Poecilocharis
• Gastropod genera