Leucophytia

Leucophytia
A shell of Leucophytia bidentata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Ellobiida
Family: Ellobiidae
Genus: Leucophytia
Winckworth, 1949[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Auriculinella (Leucophytia) Winckworth, 1949
  • Conovulus (Leuconia) Gray, 1840 ·
  • Leuconia Gray, 1840 (Invalid: junior homonym of Leuconia Grant, 1833 [Porifera]; Leucopepla and Leucophytia are replacement names)
  • Leucopepla Peile, 1926 (Replacement name for Leuconia Gray, 1840, non Grant, 1833; invalid: junior homonym of Leucopepla Kirkaldy, 1907)

Leucophytia is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae. [2]

Species

  • Leucophytia bidentata (Montagu, 1808)
  • † Leucophytia dujardini (Tournouër, 1872)
  • † Leucophytia elegans (Degrange-Touzin, 1892)
  • † Leucophytia serresi (Tournouër, 1872)

References

  1. ↑ Winckworth R. (1949). "A new name for Leuconia Gray". Journal of Conchology 23: 38. London.
  2. 1 2 MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Leucophytia Winckworth, 1949. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=153944 on 2026-03-18
  • Winckworth, R. (1949). A new name for Leuconia Gray. Journal of Conchology. 23 (2): 38.
  • Peile A.J. (1926). The Mollusca of Bermuda. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 17(2-3): 71-98.
  • Vaught, K.C.; Abbott, R.T.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
  • Gray, J.E. (1840). A manual of the land and freshwater shells of the British Islands by W. Turton. A new edition. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans. p. 227. Retrieved 29 March 2026.
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