Rachis (genus)

Rachis is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Cerastidae. This genus is also spelled as “Rhachis”as a synonym.[2]

This article is about the genus of land snails. For the biological term, see Rachis. For the king of the Lombards, see Ratchis. For the Romanian village of Rachiş, see Mirăslău.

Rachis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
Order:
Stylommatophora
Family:
Cerastidae
Genus:
Rachis

Albers, 1850[1]

Species
  • Rachis jejuna (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1893)[3]
  • Rachis petersi (Pfeiffer, 1855)[4]
  • Rachis punctata (Anton, 1838)[5]
  • Rachis tulearensis Fischer-Piette, 1964[6]
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References
  1. Albers, J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen, nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Berlin: Th. Chr. Fr. Enslin.
  2. "WMDSB-Cerastidae". Cerastidae.
  3. Melvill, J. C. & Ponsonby, J. H. (1893). Descriptions of twenty new species of terrestrial and fluviatile Mollusca from South Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 12(68), 103–112.
  4. Pfeiffer, L. (1855). Description of thirty-eight new species of Helicea, from the collection of H. Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 23, 91–101.
  5. Anton, H. E. (1839). Verzeichniss der Conchylien welche sien in der Sammlung. Halle: Eduard Anton.
  6. "WMDSB-Cerastidae". Rhachis tulearensis.


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