Lucidella

Lucidella is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Vianinae of the family Helicinidae.

Distribution

Distribution of the genus include Central America and Caribbean:

• Dominica - one undescribed species
• Jamaica - 12 species
• Cuba - 4 species: Lucidella granulum, Lucidella granum, Lucidella rugosa, Lucidella tantilla.
• Dominican Republic - 1 specie:Lucidella beatensis
• Haiti - At least three undetermined species.
• From Mexico to Costa Rica - Lucidella lirata
• Honduras
• South Florida
• French Guiana

Species

Thompson (2008) recognized four subgenera: Lucidella Swainson, 1840, Poeniella H. B. Baker, 1923, Lidsleya Chitty, 1857, Poenia H. & A. Adams, 1856.

But Rosenberg & Muratov (2006) recognized also subgenus Perenna on Jamaica.

Species within the genus Lucidella include:

subgenus Lucidella Swainson, 1840

• Lucidella aureola (Férussac, 1822) - type species
• Lucidella aureola montegoensis Brown, 1913
• Lucidella granulosa C. B. Adams, 1850
• Lucidella granulosa undulata Pfeiffer, 1862
• Lucidella inaequalis (Pfeiffer, 1859)
• Lucidella kobelti Wagner, 1910

subgenus Perenna

• Lucidella foxi Pilsbry, 1899
• Lucidella lineata (C. B. Adams, 1845)
• Lucidella nana Pfeiffer, 1857
• Lucidella persculpta Pilsbry & Brown, 1912
• Lucidella yallahsensis Pilsbry & Brown, 1912

subgenus Poenia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1856

• Lucidella adamsiana (Pfeiffer, 1849)
• Lucidella adamsiana sublaevis H. B. Baker, 1934
• Lucidella coronula (Pfeiffer, 1862)
• Lucidella depressa Gray, 1825
• Lucidella depressa valida (C. B. Adams, 1851)
• Lucidella pilsbryi Clapp, 1914 - from Honduras
• Lucidella pilsbryi indecora Pilsbry, 1930
• Lucidella midyetti Richards, 1938 - from Honduras

subgenus ?

• Lucidella granulum (Gundlach in Pfeiffer, 1864)
• Lucidella granum (Pfeiffer, 1856)
• Lucidella lirata (L. Pfeiffer, 1847) - from Mexico to Costa Rica
• Lucidella rugosa (Pfeiffer, 1839)
• Lucidella tantilla (Pilsbry, 1902) - ochre drop
• Lucidella sp. from Dominica

References

Further reading

• Boss K. J. & Jacobson M. K. (1974). "Monograph of the genus Lucidella in Cuba (Prosobranchia: Helicinidae)". Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4: 481–27.
• Boss K. J. & Jacobson M. K. (1974). "Catalogue of the taxa of Lucidella (Prosobranchia: Helicinidae)". Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4: 4929–38.
• Pilsbry H. A. (1928). "Review of the species of Lucidella belonging to the subgenus Poeniella (Helicinidae) of Haiti and Santo Domingo". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 80: 479–482, plate 27.

External links

• http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=Lucidella