Pachychilus

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Phylum:Mollusca
Superfamily:Cerithioidea
Pachychilus
Two shells of Pachychilus laevissimus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pachychilidae
Genus: Pachychilus
I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851[1]
Type species
Melania laevissima G. B. Sowerby I, 1824
Synonyms
  • Cercimelania P. Fischer & Crosse, 1892 (invalid: unnecessary replacement name for Pachychilus)
  • Melania (Pachychilus) I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851
  • Oxymelania Crosse & P. Fischer, 1892
  • Pachycheilus H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 (invalid: unjustified emendation of Pachychilus)
  • Pachychilus (Glyptomelania) Crosse & P. Fischer, 1892· accepted, alternate representation
  • Pachychilus (Oxymelania) Crosse & P. Fischer, 1892· accepted, alternate representation
  • Pachychilus (Pachychilus) I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851· accepted, alternate representation
  • Pachychilus (Pilsbrychilus) J. P. E. Morrison, 1951 (junior synonym of Pachychilus)
  • Pachychilus (Potamanax) Pilsbry, 1893· accepted, alternate representation
  • Sphaeromelania Rovereto, 1899 (invalid: unnecessary replacement name for Pachychilus)

Pachychilus, common name the jute snails,[2] is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae.

Pachychilus is the type genus of the family Pachychilidae.[3]

The distribution of species in the genus Pachychilus includes:

Species

Species within the genus Pachychilus include:

subgenus Pachychiloides Wenz, 1939[5]

  • Pachychilus lawtoni Perrilliat, Vega, Espinosa & Naranjo-Garcia, 2008[6] - fossil from Northeastern Mexico
Species brought into synonymy
  • Pachychilus aquatilis (Reeve, 1859): synonym of Doryssa aquatilis (Reeve, 1859)
  • Pachychilus drakei Arnold & Hannibal in Hannibal, 1912 †: synonym of Goniobasis drakei (Arnold & Hannibal in Hannibal, 1912) † (new combination)
  • Pachychilus glaphyra (Morelet, 1849): synonym of Pachychilus glaphyrus (Morelet, 1849) (incorrect gender of species epithet)
  • Pachychilus indifferens Crosse & P. Fischer, 1891: synonym of Pachychilus corvinus indifferens Crosse & P. Fischer, 1891 (unaccepted rank)
  • Pachychilus lawsoni Hannibal, 1912 †: synonym of Lymnaea lawsoni (Hannibal, 1912) † (new combination)
  • Pachychilus parvum I. Lea, 1857: synonym of Rehderiella parva (I. Lea, 1857) (original combination)
  • Pachychilus pila Pilsbry & Hinkley, 1910: synonym of Amnipila pila (Pilsbry & Hinkley, 1910) (original combination)
  • Pachychilus renovatus (Brot, 1862): synonym of Pachychilus cumingii I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851 (replacement name for Pachychilus cumingii I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851 as a secondary homonym)
  • Pachychilus reticancellata [sic] †: synonym of Pachychilus recticancellata (Kobayashi & Suzuki, 1939) † (incorrect subsequent spelling)
  • Pachychilus suavis Dall, 1913 †: synonym of Goniobasis suavis (Dall, 1913) †
  • Pachychilus tristrami Crosse & P. Fischer, 1892: synonym of Pachychilus gracilis Tristram, 1864 (invalid: unnecessary replacement name for Pachychilus gracilis)
  • Pachychilus violaceus (Preston, 1911) - endemic to the area from Santiago de Cuba to Baracoa, Cuba:[4] synonym of Pachychilus nigratus (Poey, 1858) (junior synonym)
  • Pachychilus vulneratus P. Fischer & Crosse, 1892: synonym of Pachychilus chrysalis (Brot, 1872) (junior synonym)

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