Lucidella is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Vianinae of the family Helicinidae.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
Distribution Distribution of the genus include Central America and Caribbean: Dominica - one undescribed species Jamaica - 12 species Cuba - 4 species:(19 November 2009) "Mollusca." Centro Nacional de Biodiversidad (CeNBio), Cuba, 22 pp., accessed 17 May 2010. HTM , PDF Lucidella granulum, Lucidella granum, Lucidella rugosa, Lucidella tantilla. Dominican Republic - 1 specie:Lucidella beatensis Haiti - At least three undetermined species.Thompson F. G. (January 1986). "Land Mollusks of The National Parks of Haiti". Gainesville, Florida, Prepared for USAID/Haiti. PDF From Mexico to Costa Rica - Lucidella lirataRichling 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 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 HondurasThompson 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]. South Florida French Guiana
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 speciesRosenberg 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. .Rosenberg G. & Muratov I. V. (last update 11 August 2005). "Recent terrestrial molluscs of Jamaica". accessed 17 May 2010. Lucidella aureola montegoensis Brown, 1913 Lucidella granulosa C. B. Adams, 1850Adams C. B. (1850). "Description of supposed new species and varieties of terrestrial shells, which inhabit Jamaica". Contributions to Conchology 5: 76-84. Lucidella granulosa undulata Pfeiffer, 1862 Lucidella inaequalis (Pfeiffer, 1859)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. Lucidella kobelti Wagner, 1910Wagner A. (1907-1911). "Die Familie der Helicinidae". Neue Folge. Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz 1:18 iii, 391. pp., 70 pls.
subgenus Perenna Lucidella foxi Pilsbry, 1899 Lucidella lineata (C. B. Adams, 1845)Adams C. B. (1845). "Specierum novarum conchyliorum, in Jamaica repertorum, synopsis". Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 2: 1-17. Lucidella nana Pfeiffer, 1857 Lucidella persculpta Pilsbry & Brown, 1912 Lucidella yallahsensis Pilsbry & Brown, 1912
subgenus Poenia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1856 Lucidella adamsiana (Pfeiffer, 1849) Lucidella adamsiana sublaevis H. B. Baker, 1934 Lucidella coronula (Pfeiffer, 1862) Lucidella depressa Gray, 1825 Lucidella depressa valida (C. B. Adams, 1851) Lucidella pilsbryi Clapp, 1914 - from Honduras Lucidella pilsbryi indecora Pilsbry, 1930 Lucidella midyetti Richards, 1938 - from Honduras
subgenus ? Lucidella granulum (Gundlach in Pfeiffer, 1864)"Mollusca" . Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011. Lucidella granum (Pfeiffer, 1856) Lucidella lirata (L. Pfeiffer, 1847) - from Mexico to Costa Rica Lucidella rugosa (Pfeiffer, 1839) Lucidella tantilla (Pilsbry, 1902) - ochre dropLucidella tantilla. ITIS, accessed 17 May 2010. Lucidella sp. from DominicaRobinson 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
References
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
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