Boucardicus Explained

Boucardicus is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Cyclophoridae.^[1]

It is endemic to Madagascar, consist 199 species and 5 subspecies.^[2] Type species is Boucardicus notabilis (Smith, 1892).^[2] Included species are very diverse, some species are medium-sized (about 10 mm) with conical shell, some are small (height 1.5-3.5 mm) with cylindrical "pupilloid-like" shell.^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Boucardicus include:

• Boucardicus notabilis (type species)
• Boucardicus albocinctus
• Boucardicus ambindaensis^[2]
• Boucardicus antiquus
• Boucardicus carylae
• Boucardicus culminans
• Boucardicus curvifolius
• Boucardicus delicatus
• Boucardicus divei
• Boucardicus esetrae
• Boucardicus fidimananai
• Boucardicus fortistriatus
• Boucardicus goudoti (Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965)
• Boucardicus magnilobatus
• Boucardicus mahermanae
• Boucardicus monchenkoi^[2]
• Boucardicus rakotoarisoni
• Boucardicus randalanai
• Boucardicus simplex
• Boucardicus tridentatus
• Boucardicus victorhernandezi
• Boucardicus anjarae^[3]
• Boucardicus avo^[3]
• Boucardicus hetra^[3]
• Boucardicus lalinify^[3]
• Boucardicus mahavariana^[3]
• Boucardicus matoatoa^[3]
• Boucardicus menoi^[3]
• Boucardicus peggyae^[3]
• Boucardicus pulchellus^[3]
• Boucardicus tantelyae^[3]

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Boucardicus Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995564 on 2021-06-20
2. Balashov I. & Griffiths O. (2015). "Two new species of minute land snails from Madagascar: Boucardicus monchenkoi sp. nov. and B. ambindaensis sp. nov. (Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoridae)". Zootaxa. 4052(2): 237-240.
3. Emberton K C., Slapcinsky J., Campbell C. A., Rakotondrazafy J. A., Andriamiarison T. N. & Emberton J. D. (2010). "Terrestrial mollusks of Andriantantely Massif, Eastern Madagascar, with descriptions of 36 new species (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda; Pulmonata)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 139(1): 71-141.