Leucocharis

Leucocharis
Shell of Leucocharis pancheri (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Helicina
Superfamily:	Orthalicoidea
Family:	Bothriembryontidae
Genus:	Leucocharis Pilsbry, 1900
Synonyms
Placostylus (Leuchocharis) (lapsus)

Leucocharis is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Placostylinae of the family Bothriembryontidae.

Species

Species within the genus Leucpcharis include: (extinct species are marked with a dagger †)

• Leucocharis loyaltyensis (Souverbie, 1879)
• Leucocharis pancheri (Crosse, 1870)
• Leucocharis porphyrocheila Dautzenberg & Bernier, 1901

References

• 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

• Nomenclator Zoologicus info
• Pilsbry, H. A. (1900). Manual of conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Ser. 2, Pulmonata. Vol. 13: Australasian Bulimulidae: Bothriembryon, Placostylus. Helicidae: Amphidromus. pp 1-253, pls 1-72. Philadelphia, published by the Conchological Section, Academy of Natural Sciences

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