Pachystyla

Pachystyla
Shell of Pachystyla bicolor (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Infraorder:	Limacoidei
Superfamily:	Helicarionoidea
Family:	Helicarionidae
Genus:	Pachystyla Moerch, 1852
Synonyms
Pachystyla (Caelatura)· accepted, alternate representation

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

Distribution

These terrestrial species occur in Mauritius.

Species

Species within the genus Pachystyla include:

• Pachystyla bicolor (Lamarck, 1822)
• Pachystyla rufozonata (H. Adams, 1869)
• Pachystyla waynepagei Griffiths, 2000

Species brought into synonymy

• Pachystyla inversicolor (Férussac, 1822): synonym of Pachystyla bicolor (Lamarck, 1822)
• Pachystyla leucostyla (L. Pfeiffer, 1855): synonym of Pachystyla bicolor (Lamarck, 1822)
• Pachystyla scalpta E. von Martens, 1878: synonym of Dancea semifusca (Deshayes, 1832) (junior synonym)

References

• Morelet, A., 1851. Testacea Africae insularis a Cl. Vesco collecta et ab Morelet descripta. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée (2)3: 218-221
• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017

External links

• Nomenclator Zoologicus info
• Mörch, O. A. L. (1852-1853). Catalogus conchyliorum quae reliquit D. Alphonso d'Aguirra & Gadea Comes de Yoldi, Regis Daniae Cubiculariorum Princeps, Ordinis Dannebrogici in Prima Classe & Ordinis Caroli Tertii Eques. Fasc. 1, Cephalophora, 170 pp