Lucerna (gastropod)

Short description: Genus of gastropods

Lucerna

Shell of Lucerna lucerna (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Heterobranchia
Order:  | Stylommatophora
Infraorder:  | Helicoidei
Superfamily:  | Helicoidea
Family:  | Pleurodontidae
Genus:  | Lucerna
Swainson, 1840
Type species
Carocolla acutissima Lamarck, 1822

Lucerna is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Lucerninae of the family Pleurodontidae.[1]

## Species

Species within the genus Lucerna include:

* Lucerna bainbridgii (L. Pfeiffer, 1845)
* † Lucerna bernardi (Kimball, 1947)
* † Lucerna bowdeniana (Simpson, 1895)
* Lucerna chemnitziana (L. Pfeiffer, 1845)
* Lucerna lamarckii (Férussac, 1821)
* Lucerna lucerna (O. F. Müller, 1774)
* Lucerna mora (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)
* Lucerna subacuta (L. Pfeiffer, 1867)
* Lucerna sublucerna Pilsbry, 1889
* Lucerna vacillans Vendreyes, 1902

Synonyms

* Lucerna (Lucidula) Swainson, 1840: synonym of Pleurodonte Fischer von Waldheim, 1807

## References

1. ↑ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Lucerna Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=998930 on 2021-02-13

## External links

* Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. London, Longman. viii + 419 pp
* Sei M., Robinson D.G., Geneva A.J. & Rosenberg G. (2017). Doubled helix: Sagdoidea is the overlooked sister group of Helicoidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 122(4): 697-728

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