Plectopylis

Plectopylis is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Plectopylidae.

Plectopylis
Plectopylis bensoni shells
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Order:Stylommatophora
Infraorder:incertae sedis
Superfamily:Plectopyloidea
Family:Plectopylidae
Genus:PlectopylisBenson, 1860

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Plectopylis is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Plectopylidae.

Plectopylis is the type genus of the family Plectopylidae.

Species in the genus Plectopylis include:

  • Plectopylis anguina (Gould, 1847)
  • † Plectopylis antiquus Yü & Pan, 1982
  • Plectopylis cairnsi (Gude, 1898)
  • Plectopylis crassilabris Páll-Gergely, 2018
  • Plectopylis cyclaspis (Benson, 1859) - synonym: Plectopylis revoluta Pfeiffer, 1867
  • Plectopylis feddeni (W. Blanford, 1865)
  • Plectopylis karenorum (W. Blanford, 1865)
  • Plectopylis linterae (Möllendorff, 1897)
  • Plectopylis malayana Páll-Gergely, 2018
  • Plectopylis ponsonbyi (Godwin-Austen, 1888)
  • Plectopylis repercussa (Gould, 1856)
  • Plectopylis thompsoni Páll-Gergely, 2018

Species brought into synonymy

  • Plectopylis bensoni (Gude, 1914): synonym of Plectopylis repercussa (Gould, 1856)
  • Plectopylis goniobathmos (Ehrmann, 1922): synonym of Chersaecia goniobathmos (Ehrmann, 1922) (original combination)
  • Plectopylis leucochilus (Gude, 1897): synonym of Chersaecia leucochila (Gude, 1898) (original combination)
  • Plectopylis lissochlamys (Gude, 1897): synonym of Chersaecia magna (Gude, 1897) (junior synonym)
  • Plectopylis magna (Gude, 1897): synonym of Chersaecia magna (Gude, 1897) (original combination)
  • Plectopylis woodthorpei (Gude, 1899): synonym of Chersaecia woodthorpei (Gude, 1899) (original combination)

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  • Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.

  • Benson, W. H. (1860). Notes on Plectopylis, a group of Helicidae distinguished by several internal plicate epiphragms; with the characters of a new species. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 3. 5(28): 243-247

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