Boucardicus

Boucardicus is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Hainesiidae.

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 <small>(Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965)</small>
• 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

• Emberton, K. C. (2002). The genus Boucardicus, a Madagascan endemic (Gastropoda: Cyclophoridae: Alycaeinae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 130 (1-2): 1-199, 35 plates.
• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017.

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