
Boucardicus is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Hainesiidae.
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Boucardicus is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Hainesiidae.
It is endemic to Madagascar, consist 199 species and 5 subspecies. Type species is Boucardicus notabilis (Smith, 1892). Included species are very diverse, some species are medium-sized (about 10 mm) with conical shell, some are small (height 1.5-3.5 mm) with cylindrical "pupilloid-like" shell.
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