Charopa Explained

Charopa is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Charopidae.

Charopa is the type genus of the family Charopidae.

Species

Species within the genus Charopa include:

• Charopa bianca (Hutton, 1883)
• Charopa coma (Gray, 1843) - type species of the genus Charopa
• Charopa lafargei Vermeulen & Marzuki, 2014^[1]
• Charopa longstaffae (Suter, 1913)
• Charopa macgillivrayana Iredale, 1913
• Charopa montivaga Suter, 1894
• Charopa pilsbryi (Suter, 1894)^[2]
• Charopa pseudocoma Suter, 1894

Notes and References

1. Vermeulen J. J. & Marzuki M. E. (2014). "‘Charopa’ lafargei (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Charopidae), a new, presumed narrowly endemic species from Peninsular Malaysia". Basteria 78(1-3): 31-34.
2. Made the type species of a separate genus Dendropa by Marshall & Worthy (2017). See: Bruce A. Marshall . Trevor H. Worthy . 2017 . Miocene land snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata) from palaeolake Manuherikia, southern New Zealand . Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand . 47 . 4 . 294–318 . 10.1080/03036758.2017.1287101 . 134943274 .