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| Shell of Boucardicus goudoti (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Cyclophoroidea |
| Family: | Alycaeidae |
| Genus: | Boucardicus Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965 |
| Type species | |
| Acroptychia notabilis E. A. Smith, 1892 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Madecataulus Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965 | |
Boucardicus is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Alycaeidae .
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.
Species
Species within the genus Boucardicus include:
- Boucardicus notabilis (type species)
- Boucardicus albocinctus
- Boucardicus ambindaensis
- Boucardicus antiquus
- Boucardicus carylae
- Boucardicus culminans
- Boucardicus curvifolius
- Boucardicus delicatus
- Boucardicus divei
- Boucardicus esetrae
- Boucardicus fidimananai
- Boucardicus fortistriatus
- Boucardicus goudoti (Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965)
- Boucardicus magnilobatus
- Boucardicus mahermanae
- Boucardicus monchenkoi
- Boucardicus rakotoarisoni
- Boucardicus randalanai
- Boucardicus simplex
- Boucardicus tridentatus
- Boucardicus victorhernandezi
- Boucardicus anjarae
- Boucardicus avo
- Boucardicus hetra
- Boucardicus lalinify
- Boucardicus mahavariana
- Boucardicus matoatoa
- Boucardicus menoi
- Boucardicus peggyae
- Boucardicus pulchellus
- Boucardicus tantelyae
References
- Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha (1965). Mém. Mus. natn. Hist. nat. Paris (N.S.) (A) 33: 63.
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Boucardicus Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995564 on 2021-06-20
- ^ Balashov I. & Griffiths O. (2015). "Two new species of minute land snails from Madagascar: Boucardicus monchenkoi sp. nov. and B. ambindaensis sp. nov. (Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoridae)". Zootaxa. 4052(2): 237-240. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4052.2.9
- ^ Emberton K C., Slapcinsky J., Campbell C. A., Rakotondrazafy J. A., Andriamiarison T. N. & Emberton J. D. (2010). "Terrestrial mollusks of Andriantantely Massif, Eastern Madagascar, with descriptions of 36 new species (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda; Pulmonata)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 139(1): 71-141. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/139/071-141
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