Bouchetcamaena Explained

Bouchetcamaena is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Camaenidae.^[1]

This is an alternate representation and debated synonym of Trichochloritis Pilsbry, 1891

Species

• Bouchetcamaena herosae Thach & F. Huber, 2020
• Bouchetcamaena maestrati Thach & F. Huber, 2020
• Bouchetcamaena thachi F. Huber, 2018
• Bouchetcamaena thachorum Thach, 2020

Synonyms:

• Bouchetcamaena fouresi (Morlet, 1886) represented as Trichochloritis fouresi (Morlet, 1886)
• Bouchetcamaena huberi Thach, 2018 represented as Trichochloritis fouresi (Morlet, 1886) (debated synonym)
• Bouchetcamaena caseus (L. Pfeiffer, 1860): synonym of Chloritis caseus (L. Pfeiffer, 1860)
• Bouchetcamaena condoriana (Crosse & P. Fischer, 1863): synonym of Bellatrachia condoriana (Crosse & P. Fischer, 1863)
• Bouchetcamaena nasuta (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1909): synonym of Chloritis nasuta (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1909)
• Bouchetcamaena thachi F. Huber, 2020: synonym of Bouchetcamaena thachorum Thach, 2020 (invalid: junior homonym of Bouchetcamaena thachi F. Huber, 2018; B. thachorum is a replacement name)

References

• Thach, N. N. (2018). New shells of South Asia. Seashells-Landsnails-Freshwater Shells. 3 New Genera, 132 New Species & Subspecies. 48HRBooks Company, Akron, Ohio, USA. 173 pp.
• Páll-Gergely, B.; Hunyadi, A.; Auffenberg, K. (2020). Taxonomic vandalism in malacology: comments on molluscan taxa recently described by N. N. Thach and colleagues (2014–2019). Folia Malacologia. 28(1): 35–76.
• Thach N. N. (2021). Rejected synonyms in MolluscaBase. The Festivus. 53(1): 63–66.

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Bouchetcamaena Thach, 2018. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1308461 on 2021-06-10