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Moricandia (gastropod)

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Moricandia is a genus of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Cyclodontinidae.[1]

Phylum:Mollusca
Suborder:Helicina
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Moricandia
Shell of Moricandia fusiformis (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Superfamily: Orthalicoidea
Family: Cyclodontinidae
Genus: Moricandia
[[[Henry Augustus Pilsbry|Pilsbry]] & Vanatta, 1898
Synonyms

Odontostomus (Moricandia) Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1898

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Species

  • Moricandia angulata (Wagner, 1827)
  • Moricandia auriscervina (A. Férussac, 1821)
  • Moricandia bouvieri (Dautzenberg, 1896)
  • Moricandia fusiformis (Rang, 1831)
  • Moricandia nasuta (E. von Martens, 1885)
  • Moricandia parallela (L. Pfeiffer, 1857)
  • Moricandia tolerata (Fulton, 1903)
  • Moricandia willi (Dohrn, 1883)
Species brought into synonymy
  • Moricandia dubiosa (Jay, 1839): synonym of Moricandia fusiformis (Rang, 1831)

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