Leucophytia

Leucophytia
A shell of Leucophytia bidentata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Ellobiida
Family:	Ellobiidae
Genus:	Leucophytia Winckworth, 1949
Synonyms
Auriculinella (Leucophytia) Winckworth, 1949 Conovulus (Leuconia) Gray, 1840 · Leuconia Gray, 1840 (Invalid: junior homonym of Leuconia Grant, 1833 [Porifera]; Leucopepla and Leucophytia are replacement names) Leucopepla Peile, 1926 (Replacement name for Leuconia Gray, 1840, non Grant, 1833; invalid: junior homonym of Leucopepla Kirkaldy, 1907)

Leucophytia is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae.

Species

• Leucophytia bidentata (Montagu, 1808)
• † Leucophytia dujardini (Tournouër, 1872)
• † Leucophytia elegans (Degrange-Touzin, 1892)
• † Leucophytia serresi (Tournouër, 1872)

References

• Winckworth, R. (1949). A new name for Leuconia Gray. Journal of Conchology. 23 (2): 38.
• Peile A.J. (1926). The Mollusca of Bermuda. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 17(2-3): 71-98.
• Vaught, K.C.; Abbott, R.T.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.

External links

• Gray, J.E. (1840). A manual of the land and freshwater shells of the British Islands by W. Turton. A new edition. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans. p. 227. Retrieved 29 March 2026.