Alcadia

Alcadia
Alcadia conuloides
Alcadia maxima
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Neritimorpha
clade Cycloneritimorpha
Superfamily: Helicinoidea
Family: Helicinidae
Genus: Alcadia
Gray, 1840[1]

Alcadia is a genus of tropical and subtropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Helicinidae.

Species

Species within the genus Alcadia include:

subgenus Idesa H. Adams & A. Adams, 1856[3]

References

  1. Gray J. E. (1840). Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum: 1-165. London. Alcadia is on the page 42.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 "Mollusca". Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
  3. Adams H. & Adams A. (1856). The genera of Recent Mollusca, Helicinidae 2: 300-309, 3: pl. 87. London. Idesa is on the page 304.
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