Blanfordia

Blanfordia
Blanfordia bensoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Rissooidea
Family:
Pomatiopsidae
Subfamily:
Pomatiopsinae[1]
Genus:
Blanfordia

Diversity[1]
3 species
Synonyms[4]

Vicina Pilsbry, 1924[3]

Blanfordia is a genus of terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Pomatiopsidae.[1] They are land snails which have an operculum.

The generic name Blanfordia is in honor of English naturalist William Thomas Blanford.[2]

  1. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference Kameda 2011 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b Adams A. (1863). "On a new Genus of Terrestrial Mollusks from Japan". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3)12: 424-425. plate VII, figures 11-12.
  3. ^ Pilsbry H. A. (1924). "On some Japanese land and fresh water mollusks". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 76: 11-13. page 12. figure 3.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Bartsch 1936 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).