Santacharis

Santacharis
Shell of Santacharis hullianus (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Helicina
Superfamily:	Orthalicoidea
Family:	Bothriembryontidae
Genus:	Santacharis Iredale, 1927
Type species
Santacharis hullianus Iredale, 1927
Synonyms
Placostylus (Santacharis) Iredale, 1927

Santacharis are a genus of very large, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Bothriembryontidae.

Species

• Santacharis fuligineus (L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
• Santacharis hullianus Iredale, 1927
• Santacharis salomonis (L. Pfeiffer, 1852)

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.

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• Iredale, T. (1927). New molluscs from Vanikoro. Records of the Australian Museum. 16(1): 73-80, pl. 5