Platycochlium

Platycochlium is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.[2]

Platycochlium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Streptaxoidea
Family:
Streptaxidae
Subfamily:
Streptaxinae
Genus:
Platycochlium

Type species
Platycochlium sarawakense Laidlaw, 1950

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Platycochlium includes:

Species

Species within the genus Platycochlium include:

  • Platycochlium barnaclei Dance, 1970
  • Platycochlium sarawakense Laidlaw, 1950
  • Platycochlium saulae Dance, 1970

References
  1. Laidlaw F. F. (1950). Sarawak Mus. J. 5: 370.
  2. Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of Diaphera Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 1-16. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00598.x.


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