Bourciera is a genus of neotropical terrestrial gastropod mollusks or land snails in the family Helicinidae. All species in the genus have an operculum.
| Bourciera | |
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| Bourciera sp., from Pichincha, Ecuador | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Neritimorpha |
| Order: | Cycloneritida |
| Superfamily: | Helicinoidea |
| Family: | Helicinidae |
| Genus: | Bourciera Pfeiffer, 1852[1] |
| Type species | |
| Cyclostoma heliciniforme L. Pfeiffer, 1853 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Pseudhelicina Sykes, 1907 (unnecessary replacement name of Bourciera L. Pfeiffer, 1852) | |
In 1907, an attempt was made to rename the genus Pseudhelicina, sometimes corrected to Pseudohelicina, on the basis of the fact that Bourciera was also the name of a genus of birds, but according to MolluscaBase this replacement was unnecessary and Bourciera is still used.[2] H. Burrington Baker considered Bourciera among the most primitive of terrestrial mollusks.[3]
Distribution
editThe genus was initially described from Ecuador based on specimens collected by Jules Bourcier, after whom it was named. It is also known to occur in Peru.[4]
Species
editSpecies within the genus Bourciera include:
- Bourciera fraseri Pfeiffer 1859[5]
- Bourciera helicinaeformis Pfeiffer 1853[6]
- Bourciera striatula Miller 1879[7]
- Bourciera viridissima Miller 1879[8]
References
edit- ^ Pfeiffer L. (1852). Conspectus Cyclostomaceorum (Schluss).Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie: 8:177–178.Bourciera is on page 178.
- ^ Sykes, E. R. (1907). The name Bourcieria. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 7(6): 312.
- ^ Baker, H. Burrington. (1925).Anatomy of Hendersonia: A Primitive Helicinid Mollusk Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 77:273-303
- ^ Ramírez R., Paredes C., Arenas J. (2003). Moluscos del Perú. Revista de Biología Tropical.: 51(supplement 3): 225-284.
- ^ Pfeiffer L. (1859). Descriptions of twenty-seven new species of land-shells, from the collection of H. Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 27 (385): 23–29, pls 43–44.
- ^ Pfeiffer L. (1853). Monographia heliceorum viventium: sistens descriptiones systematicas et criticas omnium huius familiae generum et specierum hodie cognitarum.: 3. Lipsiae: Brockhaus, 1–711. Bourciera is in figs. 9a-9c.
- ^ Miller, Konrad (1879). Die Binnenmollusken von Ecuador. Malakozoologische Blätter 26[(n. s.)]1: 117-203
- ^ Miller, Konrad (1879). Die Binnenmollusken von Ecuador. Malakozoologische Blätter 26[(n. s.)]1: 117-203
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