''Leuconopsis'' is a
genus of minute air-breathing
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...
s,
terrestrial pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusc
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...
s in the
family Ellobiidae.
[Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2012). Leuconopsis Hutton, 1883. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415561 on 2012-09-04]
Species
Species within the genus ''Leucanopsis'' include:
* ''
Leuconopsis inermis''
Hedley, 1901
* ''
Leuconopsis manningi''
Martins, 1996
* ''
Leuconopsis novimundi''
(Pilsbry & McGinty, 1949)
* ''
Leuconopsis obsoleta
''Leuconopsis obsoleta'' is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family
Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized ...
''
(Hutton, 1873)
* ''
Leuconopsis pacifica''
Oliver, 1915
* ''
Leuconopsis pellucida''
(D. Cooper, 1841)
* † ''
Leuconopsis putealis''
Laws, 1950
* ''
Leuconopsis rapanuiensis
''Leuconopsis'' is a genus of minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Ellobiidae.Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2012). Leuconopsis Hutton, 1883. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species ...
''
Rehder, 1980
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Leuconopsis pellucidus''
ic synonym of ''
Leuconopsis pellucida''
(D. Cooper, 1841)
* ''Leuconopsis tatei''
Gatliff, 1905: synonym of ''
Leuconopsis pellucida''
(D. Cooper, 1841)
* ''Leuconopsis victoriae''
Gatliff, 1905: synonym of ''
Leuconopsis pellucida''
(D. Cooper, 1841)
References
Nomenclator Zoologicus info*
Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'',
William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
Spencer H.G., Willan R.C., Marshall B.A. & Murray T.J. (2011) ''Checklist of the Recent Mollusca Recorded from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone''Bruce A. Marshall, ''Molluscan and brachiopod taxa introduced by F. W. Hutton in The New Zealand journal of science''; Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 25, Issue 4, 1995
Ellobiidae
Gastropods of New Zealand
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