Leuconopsis Explained

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

Species

Species within the genus Leucanopsis include:

• Leuconopsis inermis Hedley, 1901
• Leuconopsis manningi Martins, 1996
• Leuconopsis novimundi (Pilsbry & McGinty, 1949)
• Leuconopsis obsoleta (Hutton, 1873)
• Leuconopsis pacifica Oliver, 1915
• Leuconopsis pellucida (D. Cooper, 1841)
• † Leuconopsis putealis Laws, 1950
• Leuconopsis rapanuiensis Rehder, 1980

Species brought into synonymy:

• Leuconopsis pellucidus [sic]: synonym of Leuconopsis pellucida (D. Cooper, 1841)
• Leuconopsis tatei Gatliff, 1905: synonym of Leuconopsis pellucida (D. Cooper, 1841)
• Leuconopsis victoriae Gatliff, 1905: synonym of Leuconopsis pellucida (D. Cooper, 1841)

References

• Nomenclator Zoologicus info
• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
• Spencer H.G., Willan R.C., Marshall B.A. & Murray T.J. (2011) Checklist of the Recent Mollusca Recorded from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone
• Bruce A. Marshall, Molluscan and brachiopod taxa introduced by F. W. Hutton in The New Zealand journal of science; Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 25, Issue 4, 1995

Notes and References

1. Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2012). Leuconopsis Hutton, 1883. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415561 on 2012-09-04