''Lucerna'' is a
genus
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of air-breathing
land snails,
terrestrial
Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth.
Terrestrial may also refer to:
* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...
pulmonate gastropod mollusk
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 e ...
s in the subfamily
Lucerninae of the family
Pleurodontidae
Pleurodontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Pleurodontidae Ihering, 1912. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Sp ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Lucerna Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=998930 on 2021-02-13]
Species
Species within the genus ''Lucerna'' include:
* ''
Lucerna bainbridgii''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1845)
* † ''
Lucerna bernardi''
(Kimball, 1947)
* † ''
Lucerna bowdeniana''
(Simpson, 1895)
* ''
Lucerna chemnitziana''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1845)
* ''
Lucerna lamarckii''
(Férussac, 1821)
* ''
Lucerna lucerna''
(O. F. Müller, 1774)
* ''
Lucerna mora''
(Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)
* ''
Lucerna subacuta''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1867)
* ''
Lucerna sublucerna''
Pilsbry, 1889
* ''
Lucerna vacillans''
Vendreyes, 1902
;Synonyms:
* ''Lucerna (Lucidula)''
Swainson, 1840: synonym of ''
Pleurodonte
''Pleurodonte'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Pleurodontinae of the family Pleurodontidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Pleurodonte Fischer von Waldheim, 1807. Acces ...
''
Fischer von Waldheim, 1807
References
External links
Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. London, Longman. viii + 419 ppSei M., Robinson D.G., Geneva A.J. & Rosenberg G. (2017). Doubled helix: Sagdoidea is the overlooked sister group of Helicoidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 122(4): 697-728
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Pleurodontidae
Gastropod genera