Crystallopsis Explained

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

Species

Species within the genus Crystallopsis include:

• Crystallopsis anadyomene (A. Adams & Angas, 1864)
• Crystallopsis aphrodite (Pfeiffer, 1859)
• Crystallopsis balcombei (Cox, 1873)
• Crystallopsis conica Gude, 1907
• Crystallopsis crystallina Clench, 1958
• Crystallopsis debilis Clapp, 1923
• Crystallopsis fictilia Clapp, 1923
• Crystallopsis fulakorensis Clapp, 1923
• Crystallopsis gowerensis (Boettger, 1918)
• Crystallopsis hunteri (Cox, 1872)
• Crystallopsis lactiflua (Pfeiffer, 1861)
• Crystallopsis psyche (Angas, 1870)
• Crystallopsis purchasi (Pfeiffer, 1858)
• Crystallopsis rennellensis Clench, 1958
• Crystallopsis rossiteri (Angas, 1869)
• Crystallopsis tricolor (Pfeiffer, 1850)
• Crystallopsis wisemani (Brazier, 1876)
• Crystallopsis woodfordi (G. B. Sowerby III, 1890)

References

• Clench, W.J. (1958). The land and freshwater mollusks of Rennell Island, Solomon Islands. Natural History of Rennell Island, British Solomon Islands. 2 (27): 155–202, 4 plates.
• Delsaerdt, A., 2012 Land snails on the Solomon Islands. Volume 2. Camaenidae, p. 178 pp
• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Crystallopsis Ancey, 1887. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995922 on 2020-09-28