Boucardicus

''Boucardicus'' is a genus of land snails with an Operculum (gastropod), operculum, Terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Cyclophoridae. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Boucardicus Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995564 on 2021-06-20

It is endemic to Madagascar, consist 199 species and 5 subspecies.Balashov I. & Griffiths O. (2015). "Two new species of minute land snails from Madagascar: ''Boucardicus monchenkoi'' sp. nov. and ''B. ambindaensis'' sp. nov. (Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoridae)". ''Zootaxa''. 4052(2): 237-240. Type species is ''Boucardicus notabilis'' (Smith, 1892). Included species are very diverse, some species are medium sized (about 10 mm) with conical shell, some are small (height 1.5-3.5 mm) with cylindrical "pupilloid-like" shell.

Species

Species within the genus ''Boucardicus'' include:
* ''Boucardicus notabilis'' (type species)
* ''Boucardicus albocinctus''
* ''Boucardicus antiquus''
* ''Boucardicus carylae''
* ''Boucardicus culminans''
* ''Boucardicus curvifolius''
* ''Boucardicus delicatus''
* ''Boucardicus divei''
* ''Boucardicus esetrae''
* ''Boucardicus fidimananai''
* ''Boucardicus fortistriatus''
* ''Boucardicus goudoti'' (Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965)
* ''Boucardicus magnilobatus''
* ''Boucardicus mahermanae''
* ''Boucardicus rakotoarisoni''
* ''Boucardicus randalanai''
* ''Boucardicus simplex''
* ''Boucardicus tridentatus''
* ''Boucardicus victorhernandezi''
* ''Boucardicus anjarae''Emberton K C., Slapcinsky J., Campbell C. A., Rakotondrazafy J. A., Andriamiarison T. N. & Emberton J. D. (2010). "Terrestrial mollusks of Andriantantely Massif, Eastern Madagascar, with descriptions of 36 new species (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda; Pulmonata)". ''Archiv für Molluskenkunde'' 139(1): 71-141.
* ''Boucardicus avo''
* ''Boucardicus hetra''
* ''Boucardicus lalinify''
* ''Boucardicus mahavariana''
* ''Boucardicus matoatoa''
* ''Boucardicus menoi''
* ''Boucardicus peggyae''
* ''Boucardicus pulchellus''
* ''Boucardicus tantelyae''
* ''Boucardicus monchenkoi''
* ''Boucardicus ambindaensis''

References

Boucardicus,
Cyclophoridae
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

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