Lucidella Explained

Lucidella is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Vianinae of the family Helicinidae.^[1]

Distribution

Distribution of the genus include Central America and Caribbean:

• Dominica - one undescribed species
• Jamaica - 12 species
• Cuba - 4 species:^[2] Lucidella granulum, Lucidella granum, Lucidella rugosa, Lucidella tantilla.
• Dominican Republic - 1 specie:Lucidella beatensis
• Haiti - At least three undetermined species.^[3]
• From Mexico to Costa Rica - Lucidella lirata^{[4] [5]}
• Honduras^[6]
• South Florida^[6]
• French Guiana^[6]

Species

Thompson (2008) recognized four subgenera:Lucidella Swainson, 1840, Poeniella H. B. Baker, 1923, Lidsleya Chitty, 1857, Poenia H. & A. Adams, 1856.

But Rosenberg & Muratov (2006) recognized also subgenus Perenna on Jamaica.

Species within the genus Lucidella include:

subgenus Lucidella Swainson, 1840

• Lucidella aureola (Férussac, 1822) - type species^{[7] [8]} - photo
  • Lucidella aureola montegoensis Brown, 1913^{[7] [8]}
• Lucidella granulosa C. B. Adams, 1850^{[7] [8] [9]}
  • Lucidella granulosa undulata Pfeiffer, 1862^{[7] [8]}
• Lucidella inaequalis (Pfeiffer, 1859)^{[7] [8] [10]}
• Lucidella kobelti Wagner, 1910^{[7] [8] [11]}

subgenus Perenna

• Lucidella foxi Pilsbry, 1899^{[7] [8]}
• Lucidella lineata (C. B. Adams, 1845)^{[7] [8] [12]}
• Lucidella nana Pfeiffer, 1857^{[7] [8]}
• Lucidella persculpta Pilsbry & Brown, 1912^{[7] [8]}
• Lucidella yallahsensis Pilsbry & Brown, 1912^{[7] [8]}

subgenus Poenia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1856

• Lucidella adamsiana (Pfeiffer, 1849)^{[7] [8]}
  • Lucidella adamsiana sublaevis H. B. Baker, 1934^{[7] [8]}
• Lucidella coronula (Pfeiffer, 1862)^{[7] [8]}
• Lucidella depressa Gray, 1825^{[7] [8]}
  • Lucidella depressa valida (C. B. Adams, 1851)^{[7] [8]}
• Lucidella pilsbryi Clapp, 1914 - from Honduras^[6]
  • Lucidella pilsbryi indecora Pilsbry, 1930^[6]
• Lucidella midyetti Richards, 1938 - from Honduras^[6]

subgenus ?

• Lucidella granulum (Gundlach in Pfeiffer, 1864)^[13]
• Lucidella granum (Pfeiffer, 1856)^[13]
• Lucidella lirata (L. Pfeiffer, 1847) - from Mexico to Costa Rica^[4]
• Lucidella rugosa (Pfeiffer, 1839)^[13]
• Lucidella tantilla (Pilsbry, 1902)^[13] - ochre drop^[14]
• Lucidella sp. from Dominica^[15]

Further reading

• Boss K. J. & Jacobson M. K. (1974). "Monograph of the genus Lucidella in Cuba (Prosobranchia: Helicinidae)". Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4: 481–27.
• Boss K. J. & Jacobson M. K. (1974). "Catalogue of the taxa of Lucidella (Prosobranchia: Helicinidae)". Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4: 4929–38.
• Pilsbry H. A. (1928). "Review of the species of Lucidella belonging to the subgenus Poeniella (Helicinidae) of Haiti and Santo Domingo". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 80: 479–482, plate 27.

External links

• http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=Lucidella

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Lucidella Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996465 on 2021-05-16
2. (19 November 2009) "Mollusca." Centro Nacional de Biodiversidad (CeNBio), Cuba, 22 pp., accessed 17 May 2010. HTM, PDF
3. Thompson F. G. (January 1986). "Land Mollusks of The National Parks of Haiti". Gainesville, Florida, Prepared for USAID/Haiti. PDF
4. Richling I. (2004). "Classification of the Helicinidae: Review of morphological characteristics based on a revision of the Costa Rican species and application to the arrangement of the Central American mainland taxa (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Neritopsina)". Malacologia 45(2): 195-440. abstract
5. Barrientos Z. (2003). "Lista de especies de moluscos terrestres (Archaeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda, Archaeopulmonata, Stylommatophora, Soleolifera) informadas para Costa Rica". Revista de Biología Tropical 51(Suppl. 3): 293-304. PDF
6. Thompson F. G. (2008). "An Annotated Checklist and Bibliography of the Land and Freshwater Snails of Mexico and Central America". 903 p. Available: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/malacology/mexico-central_america_snail_checklist/ [Online: 16 June 2008].
7. Rosenberg G. & Muratov I. V. (2006). "Status Report on the Terrestrial Mollusca of Jamaica". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 155(1): 117-161. .
8. Rosenberg G. & Muratov I. V. (last update 11 August 2005). "Recent terrestrial molluscs of Jamaica". accessed 17 May 2010.
9. Adams C. B. (1850). "Description of supposed new species and varieties of terrestrial shells, which inhabit Jamaica". Contributions to Conchology 5: 76-84.
10. Pfeiffer L. (1859). Monografia heliceorum viventium sistens descriptiones systematicas et criticas omnium huius familiae generum et specierum hodie cognitarum Vol. 4. Brockhaus: Lipsiae. ix. 920. pp.
11. Wagner A. (1907-1911). "Die Familie der Helicinidae". Neue Folge. Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz 1:18 iii, 391. pp., 70 pls.
12. Adams C. B. (1845). "Specierum novarum conchyliorum, in Jamaica repertorum, synopsis". Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 2: 1-17.
13. http://www.ecosis.cu/cenbio/biodiversidadcuba/fauna/mollusca.htm "Mollusca"
14. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=70191 Lucidella tantilla
15. Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". Zoologische Mededelingen 83 http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a13