Pleurodonte bainbridgii

Pleurodonte bainbridgii
1868 painting of Pleurodonte bainbridgii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Pleurodontidae
Genus: Pleurodonte
Species: P. bainbridgii
Binomial name
Pleurodonte bainbridgii
(Pfeiffer, 1845)[1]
Synonyms

Helix bainbridgei var. pretiosa C. B. Adams, 1851 [non Albers, 1850]
Helix spengleriana Pfeiffer, 1847

Pleurodonte bainbridgii is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pleurodontidae. This species occurs in Jamaica.[2]

References

  1. Pfeiffer L. 1845. Descriptions of new species of land snails, from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 13: 43–45.
  2. Rosenberg G. & Muratov I. V. (2006). "Status Report on the Terrestrial Mollusca of Jamaica" Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 155(1): 117-161. doi:10.1635/i0097-3157-155-1-117.1.


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