''Lucerna bainbridgii'' is a

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

of air-breathing land snail, a

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pulmonate gastropod

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in 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 bainbridgii (L. Pfeiffer, 1845). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1214244 on 2021-02-17 This species occurs in

Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...

.Rosenberg G. & Muratov I. V. (2006). "Status Report on the Terrestrial Mollusca of Jamaica" ''

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'' 155(1): 117-161. .

References

External links

* (June) 1895. The Nautilus
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Pfeiffer, L. (1845). Descriptions of new species of land shells from the collection of H. Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 13 (147): 43–45. London

Sei 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.
Pleurodontidae Gastropods described in 1845 {{Pleurodontidae-stub