Japonia

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Japonia
Japonia katorii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Cyclophoridae
Genus: Japonia
Gould, 1859
Type species
Cyclostoma barbata A. Gould, 1859
Synonyms
  • Cyclostoma (Japonia) A. Gould, 1859 (original rank)
  • Japonia (Japonia) A. A. Gould, 1859 · alternate representation
  • Japonia (Mylicotrochus) P. Sarasin & F. Sarasin, 1899 · alternate representation
  • Lagochilus (Japonia) Gould, 1859(superseded combination)
  • Lagochilus (Mylicotrochus) P. Sarasin & F. Sarasin, 1899

Japonia is a genus of land snails with opercula, terrestrial gastropods in the subfamily Cyclophorinae of the family Cyclophoridae.[1]

The genus was created by Augustus Addison Gould in 1959.[2]

Species[edit]

The genus Japonia includes the following species:

References[edit]

  1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Japonia A. Gould, 1859. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=867181 on 2022-04-20
  2. ^ Gould, A. A. (1859). Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 6: 426.
  • Uchida, R.; Yahya, B. E.; Ahmad, A. H.; Sapaat, A.; Tomiyama, K. (2013). Land Snail Fauna of Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia. Venus (Journal of the Malacological Society of Japan). 71 (1–2): 49–59.

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