Acroptychia

Acroptychia
Shell of Acroptychia aequivoca (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:	Cyclophoroidea
Family:	Cyclophoridae
Genus:	Acroptychia Crosse & P. Fischer, 1877
Type species
Euptychia metableta Crosse & P. Fischer, 1873
Synonyms
Anceyiella Mabille, 1886 Euptychia Crosse & P. Fischer, 1873 (junior primary homonym of Euptychia Hübner, 1816 (Lepidoptera))

Acroptychia is a taxonomic genus of small to large tropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Cyclophoridae.

Species

• Acroptychia aequivoca (L. Pfeiffer, 1857)
• Acroptychia bathiei Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965
• Acroptychia bigoti Fischer-Piette, F. Blanc & Salvat, 1969
• Acroptychia culminans Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965
• Acroptychia mahafinaritra K. C. Emberton, Slapcinsky, C. A. Campbell, Rakotondrazafy, Andriamiarison & J. D. Emberton, 2010
• Acroptychia metableta (Crosse & P. Fischer, 1873)
• Acroptychia milloti Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965
• Acroptychia pauliana Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965
• Acroptychia pauper Fischer-Piette, F. Blanc & Salvat, 1969
• Acroptychia pyramidalis Sykes, 1900
• Acroptychia salvati (Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965)
• Acroptychia tubulare (Morelet, 1861)

Synonyms

• Acroptychia albocincta E. A. Smith, 1893: synonym of Boucardicus albocinctus (E. A. Smith, 1893) (original combination)
• Acroptychia manicata Crosse & P. Fischer, 1883: synonym of Acroptychia aequivoca (L. Pfeiffer, 1857) (junior synonym)
• Acroptychia metablata [sic]: synonym of Acroptychia metableta (Crosse & P. Fischer, 1873) (misspelling)
• Acroptychia notabilis E. A. Smith, 1892: synonym of Boucardicus notabilis (E. A. Smith, 1892) (original combination)

References

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

External links

• Crosse, H. & Fischer, P. (1877). Note sur le nouveau genre Acroptychia de Madagascar. Journal de Conchyliologie. 25: 70
• Crosse, H. & Fischer, P. (1873). Diagnoses Molluscorum novorum, insulae Madagascar dictae incolarum. Journal de Conchyliologie. 21 (2): 156-159
• Mabille, J. (1886). Diagnoses testarum novarum. Bulletin de la Société Philomatique de Paris, (7) 10 (3): 123-135; (7) 10 (4): 182-183