Lucerna (gastropod)

Lucerna
Shell of Lucerna lucerna (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Pleurodontidae
Genus:	Lucerna Swainson, 1840
Type species
Carocolla acutissima Lamarck, 1822

Lucerna is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Lucerninae of the family Pleurodontidae.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Lucerna include:

• Lucerna bainbridgii (L. Pfeiffer, 1845)
• †Lucerna bernardi (Kimball, 1947)
• †Lucerna bowdeniana (Simpson, 1895)
• Lucerna chemnitziana (L. Pfeiffer, 1845)
• Lucerna lamarckii (Férussac, 1821)
• Lucerna lucerna (O. F. Müller, 1774)
• Lucerna mora (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)
• Lucerna subacuta (L. Pfeiffer, 1867)
• Lucerna sublucerna Pilsbry, 1889
• Lucerna vacillans Vendreyes, 1902

Synonyms

• Lucerna (Lucidula) Swainson, 1840: synonym of Pleurodonte Fischer von Waldheim, 1807

References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Lucerna Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=998930 on 2021-02-13

External links

• Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. London, Longman. viii + 419 pp
• Sei M., Robinson D.G., Geneva A.J. & Rosenberg G. (2017). Doubled helix: Sagdoidea is the overlooked sister group of Helicoidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 122(4): 697-728