Bocourtia
Genus of gastropods
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Bocourtia is a genus of tropical air-breathing land snails, a pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Bulimulinae of the family Bulimulidae.[1]
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| Bocourtia | |
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| Shell of Bocourtia anthisanensis (syntype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Helicina |
| Superfamily: | Orthalicoidea |
| Family: | Bulimulidae |
| Genus: | Bocourtia Rochebrune, 1882 |
| Type species | |
| Bocourtia lymnaeformis Rochebrune, 1882 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Characteristics
(Original description in Latin) The shell is imperforate and ovate-oblong in shape. It is furrowed with grooves and possesses somewhat ventricose whorls, which are covered by a tawny-colored epidermis. The columella is slightly callous and curved. The aperture is ovate-elliptic, while the outer lip is straight and simple.[2]
Species
Species within the genus Bocourtia include:
- Bocourtia aequatorius (L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
- Bocourtia alauda (Hupé, 1857)
- Bocourtia altorum (Haas, 1951)
- Bocourtia angrandi (Morelet, 1860)
- Bocourtia anthisanensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
- Bocourtia aquila (Reeve, 1848)
- Bocourtia aurea (Breure, 1978)
- Bocourtia badia (G. B. Sowerby I, 1835)
- Bocourtia bicolor (G. B. Sowerby I, 1835)
- † Bocourtia bonariensis Miquel, 2019
- Bocourtia caliginosa (Reeve, 1849)
- Bocourtia coagulata (Reeve, 1849)
- Bocourtia confusa (Reeve, 1848)
- Bocourtia costifer (Pilsbry, 1932)
- Bocourtia costulata (Weyrauch, 1967)
- Bocourtia cotopaxiensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
- Bocourtia culminea (d'Orbigny, 1835)
- Bocourtia cuzcoensis (Weyrauch, 1967)
- Bocourtia edwardsi (Morelet, 1863)
- Bocourtia filaris (L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
- Bocourtia gayi (L. Pfeiffer, 1857)
- Bocourtia hendeensis (Pilsbry, 1926)
- † Bocourtia leonardodavincii Miquel, 2024
- Bocourtia lithoica (d'Orbigny, 1835)
- Bocourtia longitudinalis (Haas, 1955)
- Bocourtia macedoi (Weyrauch, 1967)
- Bocourtia minuta (Breure, 1978)
- Bocourtia nemorensis (Philippi, 1867)
- Bocourtia ochracea (Morelet, 1863)
- Bocourtia peakei (Breure, 1978)
- Bocourtia petiti (L. Pfeiffer, 1846)
- Bocourtia pluto (Crosse, 1869)
- Bocourtia polymorpha (d'Orbigny, 1835)
- Bocourtia promethus (Crosse, 1869)
- Bocourtia purpurata (Reeve, 1849)
- Bocourtia pyramidalis (Breure, 1978)
- Bocourtia revinctus (Hupé, 1857)
- Bocourtia thamnoica (d'Orbigny, 1835)
- Bocourtia tupacii (d'Orbigny, 1835)
- Bocourtia weddellii (Hupé, 1857)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Bocourtia lymnaeformis Rochebrune, 1881: synonym of Bocourtia anthisanensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
