Lucidella
Genus of gastropods
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Lucidella is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Vianinae of the family Helicinidae.[2]
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| Photo of an apertural view of the shell of Lucidella sp. from Dominica. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Cycloneritida |
| Superfamily: | Helicinoidea |
| Family: | Helicinidae |
| Genus: | Lucidella Swainson, 1840[1] |
| Type species | |
| Helicina aureola Gray, 1824 | |
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Distribution
Distribution of the genus include Central America and Caribbean:
- Dominica - one undescribed species[3]
- Jamaica - 12 species[4][5]
- Cuba - 4 species:[6] Lucidella granulum, Lucidella granum, Lucidella rugosa, Lucidella tantilla.
- Dominican Republic - 1 specie:Lucidella beatensis
- Haiti - At least three undetermined species.[7]
- From Mexico to Costa Rica - Lucidella lirata[8][9]
- Honduras[10]
- South Florida[10]
- French Guiana[10]
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)[4] recognized also subgenus Perenna on Jamaica.
Species within the genus Lucidella include:
subgenus Lucidella Swainson, 1840
- Lucidella aureola (Férussac, 1822) - type species[4][5]
- Lucidella granulosa C. B. Adams, 1850[4][5][11]
- Lucidella inaequalis (Pfeiffer, 1859)[4][5][12]
- Lucidella kobelti Wagner, 1910[4][5][13]
subgenus Perenna
- Lucidella foxi Pilsbry, 1899[4][5]
- Lucidella lineata (C. B. Adams, 1845)[4][5][14]
- Lucidella nana Pfeiffer, 1857[4][5]
- Lucidella persculpta Pilsbry & Brown, 1912[4][5]
- Lucidella yallahsensis Pilsbry & Brown, 1912[4][5]
subgenus Poenia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1856
- Lucidella adamsiana (Pfeiffer, 1849)[4][5]
- Lucidella coronula (Pfeiffer, 1862)[4][5]
- Lucidella depressa Gray, 1825[4][5]
- Lucidella pilsbryi Clapp, 1914 - from Honduras[10]
- Lucidella pilsbryi indecora Pilsbry, 1930[10]
- Lucidella midyetti Richards, 1938 - from Honduras[10]
subgenus ?
- Lucidella granulum (Gundlach in Pfeiffer, 1864)[15]
- Lucidella granum (Pfeiffer, 1856)[15]
- Lucidella lirata (L. Pfeiffer, 1847) - from Mexico to Costa Rica[8]
- Lucidella rugosa (Pfeiffer, 1839)[15]
- Lucidella tantilla (Pilsbry, 1902)[15] - ochre drop[16]
- Lucidella sp. from Dominica[3]
