Pycnoptychia

Pycnoptychia
Shell of Pycnoptychia humboldtii johnsoni (syntype at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Urocoptoidea
Family:	Urocoptidae
Genus:	Pycnoptychia Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1898[1]

Pycnoptychia is a genus of a land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Urocoptidae.[2]

Distribution

This genus lives in Cuba.[2]

Ecology

Species in the genus Pycnoptychia are a ground dwelling species in Cuba.[3]

Species

Species in the genus Pycnoptychia include:

• Pycnoptychia amicorum Torre & Bartsch, 2008[2]
• Pycnoptychia humboldtii (Pfeiffer, 1840)[2]
• Pycnoptychia oviedoiana (d’Orbigny, 1842)[2]
• Pycnoptychia peraffinis (Pilsbry, 1903)[2]
• Pycnoptychia scaeva (Gundlach in Pfeiffer, 1863)[2]
• Pycnoptychia shuttleworthiana (Poey, 1856)[2]
• Pycnoptychia strangulata (Poey, 1856)[2]
• Pycnoptychia striatella (Wright in Pfeiffer, 1864)[2]
• Pycnoptychia torrei (Arango, 1876)[2]
• Pycnoptychia trina Torre & Bartsch, 2008[2]

References

1. Pilsbry H. A. & Vanatta E. G. (1898). Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 1898: 271, 275.
2. "Mollusca" Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
3. Rios O. M. & Quinta M. H. (2010). "Larval Feeding Habits of the Cuban Endemic Firefly Alecton discoidalis Laporte (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)". Psyche 2010, Article ID 149879, 5 pages, doi:10.1155/2010/149879.