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Plectotropis

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Plectotropis
A live specimen of Plectotropis mackenzii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Camaenidae
Subfamily: Bradybaeninae
Tribe: Aegistini
Genus: Plectotropis
AE. von Martens, 1860
Type species
Helix pretiosa
Albers, 1850
Species

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Synonyms[1]
  • Aegista (Plectotropis) E. von Martens, 1860
  • Eulota (Plectotropis) E. von Martens, 1860
  • Helix (Plectotropis) Martens, 1860
  • Helix (Thea) Albers, 1850 (Invalid: junior homonym of Thea Mulsant, 1846 [Coleoptera]; Plectotropis is a replacement name)
  • Thea Albers, 1850 (invalid: junior homonym of Thea Mulsant, 1846 [Coleoptera]; Plectotropis is a replacement name)

Plectotropis is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Camaenidae.[1]

Nomenclature

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Plectotropis is a substitute name for Thea Albers, 1850, junior homonym of Thea Mulsant, 1846. Martens designated Helix elegantissima L. Pfeiffer, 1849 as type species, which was not originally included in Thea.[1]

Species

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Taxa inquerenda
  • Plectotropis comata Sturany, 1899
  • Plectotropis delectabilis Ehrmann, 1900 (synonym: Aegista delectabilis (P. Ehrmann, 1900) )
  • Plectotropis scabricula (A. Adams, 1868)
  • Plectotropis setocincta (A. Adams, 1868)
Synonyms
  • Plectotropis oldhami (Benson, 1859): synonym of Aegista oldhami (Benson, 1859)

References

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  1. ^ a b c MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Plectotropis E. von Martens, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995796 on 2020-05-08
  • Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
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