Riebeckia

Riebeckia
Shell of Riebeckia sokotorana (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Achatinina
Superfamily:	Achatinoidea
Family:	Achatinidae
Genus:	Riebeckia E. von Martens, 1883
Type species
Achatina sokotorana E. von Martens, 1881
Synonyms
Stenogyra (Riebeckia) E. von Martens, 1883 ·

Riebeckia is a genus of air-breathing tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Coeliaxinae of the family Achatinidae.

Species

• Riebeckia adonensis (Godwin-Austen, 1881)
• Riebeckia decipiens (E. A. Smith, 1897)
• Riebeckia enodis (Godwin-Austen, 1881)
• Riebeckia gollonsirensis (Godwin-Austen, 1881)
• Riebeckia sokotorana (E. von Martens, 1881)

Synonyms

• Riebeckia lavranosi Salvat, 1969: synonym of Riebeckia sokotorana (E. von Martens, 1881) (junior synonym)
• Riebeckia sordida Neubert, 2002: synonym of Balfouria sordida (Neubert, 2002) (original name)

References

• Martens, E. von (1883). III. Mollusken von Sokotra. Conchologische Mittheilungen, 2 (3/4): 140–152, pl. 28, 29.
• Salvat, B., 1969. Mollusques terrestres de Socotra et d'Abd-el-Kuri (Océan Indien). Récoltes de M. Lavranos. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 41(3): 743–754, sér. 2ème série, part. Zoologie
• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.

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• Neubert, E. & Bochud, E. (2020). The continental malacofauna of Arabia and adjacent areas, VII. The family Achatinidae (Coeliaxinae, Subulininae) in the Socotran Archipelago (Gastropoda, Pulmonata). Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali. 31 (4): 655–676

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