Tanychlamys

Tanychlamys
A live individual and an empty shell of Tanychlamys indica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Superfamily:	Helicarionoidea
Family:	Ariophantidae
Subfamily:	Macrochlamydinae
Genus:	Tanychlamys Benson, 1834
Type species
Helix vitrinoides Deshayes, 1831
Synonyms[1]
List Ariophanta (Macrochlamys) Gray, 1847 Helicarion (Macrochlamys) W. H. Benson, 1836 Macrochlamys W. H. Benson, 1836 Macrochlamys (Euaustenia) Cockerell, 1891 Macrochlamys (Macrochlamys) Gray, 1847 Macrochlamys (Rhadella) Godwin-Austen, 1914 Nanina (Macrochlamys) W. H. Benson, 1836 Nanina (Orobia) E. von Martens, 1860 Orobia E. von Martens, 1860 Stenopus (Macrochlamys) W. H. Benson, 1836

Tanychlamys is a large genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ariophantidae.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Tanychlamys include:

• Tanychlamys amboinensis (von Martens, 1864)
• Tanychlamys ceromatica (Morelet, 1881)
• Tanychlamys clessini Westerlund, 1902[2]
• Tanychlamys indica Benson, 1832
• Tanychlamys kasnakowi (Westerlund, 1898)[2]
• Tanychlamys tersa (Issel, 1874)
• Tanychlamys turanica Martens, 1874[2]
• Tanychlamys vitrinoides (Deshayes, 1831)

Macrochlamys amboinensis

References

1. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Tanychlamys W. H. Benson, 1834". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2024-05-04.
2. Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on March 2, 2010). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.1.

• Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017

External links

• Media related to Macrochlamys at Wikimedia Commons
• Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1847) 15: 129-219
• Godwin-Austen, H. H. (1882-1920). Land and freshwater Mollusca of India, including South Arabia, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Burmah, Pegu, Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Ceylon, and other islands of the Indian Ocean. Supplementary to Messrs. Theobald and Hanley's Conchologia Indica. London, Taylor & Francis.
• Pfeiffer, L. (1855-1856). Versuch einer Anordnung der Heliceen nach natürlichen Gruppen. Malakozoologische Blätter. 2(3): 112
• Benson, W. H. (1834). Observations on a collection of land and freshwater shells, formed in the Gangetic provinces of India. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 2: 89-91
• Baker, H. B. (1938). Bensonies, new name for Bensonia Pfeiffer. Nautilus. 52(1): 33.