Alinda (gastropod)

Alinda
shell of Alinda biplicata (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Clausilioidea
Family: Clausiliidae
Subfamily: Baleinae
Genus: Alinda
H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855[1]
Species

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Synonyms[2]
  • Alinda (Alinda) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855· alternate representation
  • Alinda (Pseudalinda) O. Boettger, 1877 alternate representation
  • Balea (Alinda) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855
  • Balea (Pseudalinda) O. Boettger, 1877
  • Banatica O. Boettger, 1877
  • Clausilia (Alinda) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 (original rank)
  • Clausilia (Cusmicia) junior subjective synonym
  • Clausilia (Iphigenia) Gray, 1840 superseded rank
  • Clausilia (Kuzmicia) Brusina, 1870 (junior synonym)
  • Clausilia (Pseudalinda) O. Boettger, 1877
  • Iphigena [sic] (Invalid: junior homonym of Iphigenia Schumacher, 1817; Alinda is a replacement name; incorrect subsequent spelling)
  • Iphigenia Gray, 1840
  • Kuzmicia Brusina, 1870
  • Laciniaria (Alinda) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 (superseded generic combination)
  • Laciniaria (Pseudalinda) O. Boettger, 1877
  • Plicaphora W. Hartmann, 1841
  • Pseudalinda O. Boettger, 1877
  • Pseudalinda (Pseudalinda) O. Boettger, 1877
  • Pseudocerva Schaufuss, 1869

Alinda is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails. [2]

The name Alinda Adams & Adams, 1855 cannot be used because the older name Plicaphora Hartmann, 1841 has as type * A junior synonym of Alinda's type species Turbo biplicatus Montagu, 1803.[3]

  1. ^ H. Adams. & A. Adams, 1858. The genera of recent Mollusca; arranged according to their organization. In three volumes. Vol. II. - pp. [1-3], 1-661. London, (Van Voorst).
  2. ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Alinda H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996073 on 2024-08-14
  3. ^ "Genus taxon summary for Alinda". AnimalBase, Last modified 08-09-2008, accessed 10 August 2010.