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Boucardicus
Sign in to saveBoucardicus is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Hainesiidae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderArchitaenioglossa
- FamilyAlycaeidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,415
- Family
- Alycaeidae
- Collections
- CAS, UF
- Recorded in
- Madagascar
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- Parent taxon
- Cyclophoridae
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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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