Socotora

Short description: Genus of molluscs (snails)

Socotora

Shell of Socotora clathratula (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Caenogastropoda
Order:  | Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:  | Littorinoidea
Family:  | Pomatiidae
Genus:  | Socotora
Pallary, 1925
Type species
Cyclostoma albicans G. B. Sowerby I, 1839

Synonyms

* Georgia Bourguignat, 1882
* Georgia (Arabia) Pallary, 1925 (precedence of simultaneously published Socotora determined by First Reviser
* Georgia (Georgia) Bourguignat, 1882 (Invalid: junior homonym of Georgia Baird & Girard, 1853 [Reptilia]
* Revoilia (Socotora) Pallary, 1925

Socotora is a genus of small operculate land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Pomatiidae.[1]

## Species

* Socotora albicans (G. B. Sowerby I, 1839)
* Socotora auricularis (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)
* Socotora clathratula (Récluz, 1843)
* Socotora helicoides Neubert, 2009
* Socotora naticoides (Récluz, 1843)

## References

1. ↑ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Socotora Pallary, 1925. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995129 on 2022-06-17

* Bourguignat, J.-R. (1882). Mission G. Révoil au pays Çomalis. Faune et Flore. Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles, 1-108 pp., 4 pls + 2 unnumbered pls (anatomy). Paris (Jules Tremblay)
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.

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