Lignus
Genus of gastropods
| Lignus | |
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| Shell of Lignus cailleanus (syntype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Achatinina |
| Superfamily: | Achatinoidea |
| Family: | Achatinidae |
| Genus: | Lignus Gray, 1834 |
| Type species | |
| Lignus tenuis Gray, 1834 | |
| Species | |
| See text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Lignus is a genus of air-breathing tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Achatininae of the family Achatinidae.[1]
Species
- Lignus alabaster (Rang, 1831)
- Lignus batesi (Preston, 1909)
- Lignus belli (Germain, 1908)
- Lignus cailleanus (Morelet, 1848)
- Lignus efulensis (Preston, 1909)
- Lignus interstinctus (Gould, 1843)
- Lignus mucidus (Gould, 1850)
- Lignus solimanus (Morelet, 1848)
- Lignus tenuis Gray, 1834
- Lignus verdieri (Chaper, 1885)
- Lignus zegzeg (Morelet, 1848)
- Taxon inquirendum
- Lignus turbinatus (I. Lea, 1841)
References
- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Lignus Gray, 1834. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995605 on 2021-05-08
- Morelet, A., 1848 Revue zoologique.
- Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
External links
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- Gray, J. E. (1834). Land and freshwater shells hitherto undescribed. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1834) 2: 63-68
- Mörch, O. A. L. (1852-1853). Catalogus conchyliorum quae reliquit D. Alphonso d'Aguirra & Gadea Comes de Yoldi, Regis Daniae Cubiculariorum Princeps, Ordinis Dannebrogici in Prima Classe & Ordinis Caroli Tertii Eques. Fasc. 1, Cephalophora, 170 pp. [1852]; Fasc. 2, Acephala, Annulata, Cirripedia, Echinodermata, 74 [+2] pp. [1853]. Hafniae [Copenhagen]: L. Klein.
- Shuttleworth, R. J. (1856). Beiträge zur näheren Kenntniss der Mollusken. Notitiae Malacologicae. 1: 1-90, pls 1-9
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