| Bourciera | |
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| Bourciera sp., from Pichincha, Ecuador | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Neritimorpha |
| Order: | Cycloneritida |
| Superfamily: | Helicinoidea |
| Family: | Helicinidae |
| Genus: | Bourciera Pfeiffer, 1852[1] |
| Type species | |
| Cyclostoma heliciniforme L. Pfeiffer, 1853 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Pseudhelicina Sykes, 1907 (unnecessary replacement name of Bourciera L. Pfeiffer, 1852) | |
Bourciera is a genus of neotropical terrestrial gastropod mollusks or land snails in the family Helicinidae. All species in the genus have an operculum.
In 1907, an attempt was made to rename the genus Pseudhelicina, sometimes corrected to Pseudohelicina, on the basis of the fact that Bourciera was also the name of a genus of birds, but according to MolluscaBase this replacement was unnecessary and Bourciera is still used.[2] H. Burrington Baker considered Bourciera among the most primitive of terrestrial mollusks.[3]
- ^ Pfeiffer L. (1852). Conspectus Cyclostomaceorum (Schluss).Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie: 8:177–178.Bourciera is on page 178.
- ^ Sykes, E. R. (1907). The name Bourcieria. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 7(6): 312.
- ^ Baker, H. Burrington. (1925).Anatomy of Hendersonia: A Primitive Helicinid Mollusk Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 77:273-303