Rhachistia

Rhachistia

Drawing of apertural and abapertural view of the shell of Rhachistia rhodotaenia.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Pulmonata
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Orthurethra
Superfamily:	Enoidea
Family:	Cerastidae
Genus:	Rhachistia Connolly, 1922^[1]

Rhachistia is a genus of pulmonate land snail, a gastropod mollusk in the family Cerastidae.

Genus Rhachistia is distributed in Eastern Africa and Asia.

Species

Species in the genus Rhachistia include^[2]:

Rhachistia aldabrae (von Martens, 1898) - Aldabra banded snail - extinct since 2000.
Rhachistia festiva (Connolly)
Rhachistia hildebrandti (von Martens)
Rhachistia histria (Pfeiffer, 1855)
Rhachistia lilacina Connolly
Rhachistia moluensis (Kobelt)
Rhachistia picturata (Morelet)
Rhachistia rhodotaenia (von Martens, 1901) - type species of the genus Rhachistia
Rhachistia obeliscus (C. R. Boettger)

References

^ Connolly M. (1924). "The non-marine mollusca of Portuguese East Africa". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 12 (1): 105–215. doi:10.1080/00359192409519300. http://www.archive.org/details/nonmarinemollusc00conn.
^ Burgess N. D. & Clarke G. P. (eds.) (2000) Coastal forests of Eastern Africa. IUCN (IUCN Forest Conservation Programme, NORAD (Norway), Conservation International). xiii, 443 pp. ISBN 2-8317-0436-7. Appendix 8.

External links

http://www.archive.org/stream/newcaledonianlan413sole#page/448/mode/2up