Acroptychia is a taxonomic genus of small to large tropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Cyclophoridae.MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Acroptychia Crosse & P. Fischer, 1877. Accessed through: World Register of Marine * At: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995562 on 2024-03-17
Species Acroptychia aequivoca (L. Pfeiffer, 1857) Acroptychia bathiei Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965 Acroptychia bigoti Fischer-Piette, F. Blanc & Salvat, 1969 Acroptychia culminans Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965 Acroptychia mahafinaritra K. C. Emberton, Slapcinsky, C. A. Campbell, Rakotondrazafy, Andriamiarison & J. D. Emberton, 2010 Acroptychia metableta (Crosse & P. Fischer, 1873) Acroptychia milloti Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965 Acroptychia pauliana Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965 Acroptychia pauper Fischer-Piette, F. Blanc & Salvat, 1969 Acroptychia pyramidalis Sykes, 1900 Acroptychia salvati (Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965) Acroptychia tubulare (Morelet, 1861)
Synonyms Acroptychia albocincta E. A. Smith, 1893: synonym of Boucardicus albocinctus (E. A. Smith, 1893) (original combination) Acroptychia manicata Crosse & P. Fischer, 1883: synonym of Acroptychia aequivoca (L. Pfeiffer, 1857) (junior synonym) Acroptychia metablata [sic]: synonym of Acroptychia metableta (Crosse & P. Fischer, 1873) (misspelling) Acroptychia notabilis E. A. Smith, 1892: synonym of Boucardicus notabilis (E. A. Smith, 1892) (original combination)
References
Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017
External links Crosse, H. & Fischer, P. (1877). Note sur le nouveau genre Acroptychia de Madagascar. Journal de Conchyliologie. 25: 70 Crosse, H. & Fischer, P. (1873). Diagnoses Molluscorum novorum, insulae Madagascar dictae incolarum. Journal de Conchyliologie. 21 (2): 156-159 Mabille, J. (1886). Diagnoses testarum novarum. Bulletin de la Société Philomatique de Paris, (7) 10 (3): 123-135; (7) 10 (4): 182-183