Acusta

Acusta
Acusta despecta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Camaenidae
Subfamily:	Bradybaeninae
Tribe:	Bradybaenini
Genus:	Acusta Albers, 1860
Type species
Nanina ravida Benson, 1842
Synonyms
Eulota (Acusta) Martens, 1860 (unaccepted rank) Helix (Acusta) Martens, 1860 Manchurohelix Taki, 1936 Nanina (Acusta) Albers, 1860

Acusta is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Bradybaeninae of the family Camaenidae.

Species

Species within the genus Acusta include:

• Acusta assimilis (H. Adams, 1866)
• Acusta despecta (G. B. Sowerby I, 1839)
• Acusta lineolata (Möllendorff, 1875)
• Acusta moolenbeeki Thach & F. Huber, 2021
• Acusta ravida (Benson, 1842)
• Acusta redfieldi (L. Pfeiffer, 1852)
• Acusta rhodostoma (Möllendorff, 1884)
• Acusta sieboldtiana (L. Pfeiffer, 1850)
• Acusta tourannensis (Souleyet, 1852)
• Acusta toyenmongaiensis Rolle, 1911

Species brought into synonymy

• Acusta frilleyi (Crosse & Debeaux, 1863): synonym of Acusta ravida frilleyi (Crosse & Debeaux, 1863) (unaccepted rank)
• Acusta kikaiensis (Pilsbry, 1902): synonym of Acusta despecta kikaiensis (Pilsbry, 1902)
• Acusta laeta (Gould, 1859): synonym of Ezohelix gainesi (Pilsbry, 1900) (junior synonym)
• Acusta vagoina (Gredler, 1887) : synonym of Bradybaena vagoina (Gredler, 1887) (superseded combination)

References

• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
• Thach N.N., (2021) New shells of South Asia and Taiwan, China, Tanzania. Seashells*Freshwater*Land snails. With 116 new species and subspecies and rejected synonyms, accepted species, p. 202 pp

External links

• Media related to Acusta at Wikimedia Commons
• Albers, J. C.; Martens, E. von. (1860). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet von Joh. Christ. Albers. Ed. 2. Pp. i-xviii, 1-359. Leipzig: Engelman