Bocourtia

Bocourtia
Shell of Bocourtia anthisanensis (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Superfamily: Orthalicoidea
Family: Bulimulidae
Genus: Bocourtia
Rochebrune, 1882
Type species
Bocourtia lymnaeformis Rochebrune, 1882
Synonyms
  • Bocourtia (Bocourtia) Rochebrune, 1882
  • Bocourtia (Kuschelenia) Hylton Scott, 1951
  • Kuschelenia Hylton Scott, 1951
  • Kuschelenia (Bocourtia) Rochebrune, 1882
  • Kuschelenia (Kuschelenia) Hylton Scott, 1951
  • Kuschelenia (Vermiculatus) Breure, 1978 (junior synonym)
  • Scutalus (Kuschelenia) Hylton Scott, 1951
  • Scutalus (Vermiculatus) Breure, 1978 (junior synonym)

Bocourtia is a genus of tropical air-breathing land snails, a pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Bulimulinae of the family Bulimulidae.

Characteristics

(Original description in Latin) The shell is imperforate and ovate-oblong in shape. It is furrowed with grooves and possesses somewhat ventricose whorls, which are covered by a tawny-colored epidermis. The columella is slightly callous and curved. The aperture is ovate-elliptic, while the outer lip is straight and simple.

Species

Species within the genus Bocourtia include:

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. 1 2 MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Bocourtia Rochebrune, 1882. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995854 on 2020-06-14
  2. ↑ Rochebrune, A.-T., 1881 Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris, 6(7): Paris Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.