Beckianum is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks. This genus in the family Achatinidae.[2]
| Beckianum | |
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| Beckianum beckianum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Achatinina |
| Superfamily: | Achatinoidea |
| Family: | Achatinidae |
| Subfamily: | Subulininae |
| Genus: | Beckianum Baker, 1961[1] |
Species
editSpecies within the genus Beckianum include:
- Beckianum beckianum (Pfeiffer, 1846)[3]
- Beckianum sinistrum Martens, 1890
- Beckianum sp. - besides Beckianum beckianum and Beckianum sinistrum there seems to exist another species, endemic to Nicaragua[4]
References
edit- ^ Baker (1961). Nautilus, Philad. 75: 84.
- ^ Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 10 January 2019.
- ^ "Mollusca" Archived July 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
- ^ (in Spanish) Pérez A. M., Sotelo M., Arana I. & López A. (2008). "Diversidad de moluscos gasterópodos terrestres en la región del Pacífico de Nicaragua y sus preferencias de hábitat". Rev. Biol. Trop. 56(1): 317-332,. PDF
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