''Pachnodus'' 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 family
Cerastidae
Cerastidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the order Stylommatophora.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Cerastidae Wenz, 1923. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Pachnodus E. von Martens, 1860. Accessed through]
World Register of Marine Species
on 2020-12-31
Distribution
The genus ''Pachnodus'' is
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ...
to the
Seychelles
Seychelles (, ; ), officially the Republic of Seychelles (french: link=no, République des Seychelles; Creole: ''La Repiblik Sesel''), is an archipelagic state consisting of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city, ...
.
[Gerlach J. (1999). "Snails of the genus ''Pachnodus'' (Mollusca; Gastropoda; Enidae): their origins and evolution". '' Journal of Biogeography'' 26(2): 251-255. ]
JSTOR
Species
Species within the genus ''Pachnodus'' include:
subgenus ''Pachnodus''
* ''
Pachnodus becketti'' Gerlach, 1994
* ''
Pachnodus leroyi''
Bourguignat, 1890
* ''
Pachnodus lionneti'' Von Mol & Coppois, 1980
* ''
Pachnodus niger'' (Dufo, 1840)
** ''Pachnodus niger niger'' (Dufo, 1840)
** ''Pachnodus niger subfuscus'' Gerlach, 1994
* † ''
Pachnodus velutinus'' (Pfeiffer, 1942)
* ''Pachnodus niger × velutinus''
* ''
Pachnodus sesamorum''
Bourguignat, 1890
subgenus ''
Nesiocerastus''
* ''
Pachnodus fregatensis'' Von Mol & Coppois, 1980
* ''
Pachnodus kantilali'' Von Mol & Coppois, 1980
* ''
Pachnodus ornatus'' (Dufo, 1840)
* ''Pachnodus ornatus'' var. ''biornatus''
* ''
Pachnodus oxoniensis'' Gerlach, 1994
* ''
Pachnodus praslinus'' Gerlach, 1990
* ''
Pachnodus silbouettanus'' Von Mol & Coppois, 1980
References
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Cerastidae
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