Socotora

Socotora
Shell of Socotora clathratula (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Littorinoidea
Family:	Pomatiidae
Genus:	Socotora Pallary, 1925
Type species
Cyclostoma albicans G. B. Sowerby I, 1839
Synonyms
Georgia Bourguignat, 1882 Georgia (Arabia) Pallary, 1925 (precedence of simultaneously published Socotora determined by First Reviser Georgia (Georgia) Bourguignat, 1882 (Invalid: junior homonym of Georgia Baird & Girard, 1853 [Reptilia] Revoilia (Socotora) Pallary, 1925

Socotora is a genus of small operculate land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Pomatiidae.

Species

• Socotora albicans (G. B. Sowerby I, 1839)
• Socotora auricularis (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)
• Socotora clathratula (Récluz, 1843)
• Socotora helicoides Neubert, 2009
• Socotora naticoides (Récluz, 1843)

References

• Bourguignat, J.-R. (1882). Mission G. Révoil au pays Çomalis. Faune et Flore. Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles, 1-108 pp., 4 pls + 2 unnumbered pls (anatomy). Paris (Jules Tremblay)
• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
• Media related to Socotora at Wikimedia Commons

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