''Zachrysia'' is a
genus of 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 ...
mollusks in the family
Zachrysiidae
Zachrysiidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Sagdoidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Zachrysiidae D. G. Robinson, Sei & Rosenberg, 2017. Accessed through: World Regi ...
Species
Species within the genus ''Zachrysia'' are majorly Cuban endemics and include:
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Zachrysia auricoma''
(Férussac, 1821)
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Zachrysia baracoensis''
(Gutiérrez in Pfeiffer, 1858)
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Zachrysia bayamensis''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
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Zachrysia emarginata''
(Gundlach in Pfeiffer,. 1859)
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Zachrysia flavicoma''
Pilsbry, 1929
* † ''
Zachrysia fraterna''
Ross, 1988
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Zachrysia gibarana''
Pilsbry, 1929
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Zachrysia guanensis''
(Poey, 1857)
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Zachrysia guantanamensis''
(Poey, 1857)
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Zachrysia gundlachiana''
Pilsbry, 1929
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Zachrysia petitiana''
(d'Orbigny, 1842)
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Zachrysia proboscidea''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1856)
* ''
Zachrysia provisoria
''Zachrysia provisoria'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae or Pleurodontidae.
Description
The shell is medium-sized (25–30 mm width), globose in shape with ...
''
(Pfeiffer, 1858)
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Zachrysia rangeliana''
(Pfeiffer, 1854)
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Zachrysia scabrosa''
(Poey, 1854)
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Zachrysia torrei''
(Henderson, 1916)
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Zachrysia trinitaria
''Zachrysia trinitaria'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae or Pleurodontidae.
Distribution
This species is already established in the USA, and is considered to re ...
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(L. Pfeiffer, 1858)
References
Further reading
*
Pilsbry H. A. (1928). "Studies on West Indian Mollusks: The Genus Zachrysia". ''
Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia'' 80(1928): 581-606
JSTOR
Camaenidae
Gastropod genera
Taxa named by Henry Augustus Pilsbry
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