Acusta

Genus of gastropods

Acusta

Acusta despecta
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Order:  | Stylommatophora
Family:  | Camaenidae
Subfamily:  | Bradybaeninae
Tribe:  | Bradybaenini
Genus:  | Acusta
Albers, 1860[1]
Type species
Nanina ravida

Benson, 1842

Synonyms[2]

* Eulota (Acusta) Martens, 1860 (unaccepted rank)
* Helix (Acusta) Martens, 1860
* Manchurohelix Taki, 1936
* Nanina (Acusta) Albers, 1860

Acusta is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Bradybaeninae of the family Camaenidae.[2]

## Species

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Species within the genus Acusta include:

* Acusta assimilis (H. Adams, 1866)
* Acusta despecta (G. B. Sowerby I, 1839)
* Acusta lineolata (Möllendorff, 1875)
* Acusta moolenbeeki Thach & F. Huber, 2021
* Acusta ravida (Benson, 1842)
* Acusta redfieldi (L. Pfeiffer, 1852)
* Acusta rhodostoma (Möllendorff, 1884)
* Acusta sieboldtiana (L. Pfeiffer, 1850)
* Acusta tourannensis (Souleyet, 1852)
* Acusta toyenmongaiensis Rolle, 1911

Species brought into synonymy

* Acusta frilleyi (Crosse & Debeaux, 1863): synonym of Acusta ravida frilleyi  (Crosse & Debeaux, 1863) (unaccepted rank)
* Acusta kikaiensis (Pilsbry, 1902): synonym of Acusta despecta kikaiensis (Pilsbry, 1902)
* Acusta laeta (Gould, 1859): synonym of Ezohelix gainesi (Pilsbry, 1900) (junior synonym)
* Acusta vagoina (Gredler, 1887) : synonym of Bradybaena vagoina (Gredler, 1887) (superseded combination)

## References

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1. ^ Albers J. C. & Martens E von (1860). Die Heliceen, nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig. page 56.
2. ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Acusta E. von Martens, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995803 on 2021-09-30

* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
* Thach N.N., (2021) New shells of South Asia and Taiwan, China, Tanzania. Seashells*Freshwater*Land snails. With 116 new species and subspecies and rejected synonyms, accepted species, p. 202 pp

## External links

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* Media related to Acusta at Wikimedia Commons
* Albers, J. C.; Martens, E. von. (1860). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet von Joh. Christ. Albers. Ed. 2. Pp. i-xviii, 1-359. Leipzig: Engelman

Taxon identifiers

Acusta|

* Wikidata: Q4677900
* BOLD: 395260
* CoL: 7NN2S
* EoL: 4893758
* EPPO: 1ACUSG
* GBIF: 4598851
* iNaturalist: 446747
* IRMNG: 1412047
* NCBI: 120487
* Open Tree of Life: 904878
* WoRMS: 995803