Lucidella is a genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of land snail

Land snail

A land snail is any of the many species of snail that live on land, as opposed to those that live in salt water and fresh water. Land snails are terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells, It is not always an easy matter to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less...

s with an operculum

Operculum (gastropod)

The operculum, meaning little lid, is a corneous or calcareous anatomical structure which exists in many groups of sea snails and freshwater snails, and also in a few groups of land snails...

, terrestrial

Terrestrial animal

Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...

 gastropod mollusks in the family Helicinidae

Helicinidae

Helicinidae is a family of small tropical land snails which have an operculum. They are terrestrial operculate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicinoidea....

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Distribution

Distribution of the genus include Central America

Central America

Central America is the central geographic region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast. When considered part of the unified continental model, it is considered a subcontinent...

 and Caribbean:

• Dominica - one undescribed species
• Jamaica - 12 species
• Cuba - 4 species: Lucidella granulum, Lucidella granum, Lucidella rugosa, Lucidella tantilla.
• Haiti
  Haiti
  Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...
  
   - At least three undetermined species.
• From Mexico to Costa Rica
  Costa Rica
  Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....
  
   - Lucidella lirata
• Honduras
  Honduras
  Honduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize...
  
  
• South Florida
• French Guyana

Species

Thompson (2008) recognized four subgenera:
Lucidella Swainson, 1840, Poeniella H. B. Baker, 1923, Lidsleya Chitty, 1857, Poenia H. & A. Adams, 1856.

But Rosenberg & Muratov (2006) recognized also subgenus Perenna on Jamaica.

Species within the genus Lucidella include:

subgenus Lucidella Swainson, 1840

• Lucidella aureola (Férussac, 1822) - type species - photo
  • Lucidella aureola montegoensis Brown, 1913
• Lucidella granulosa C. B. Adams, 1850
  • Lucidella granulosa undulata Pfeiffer, 1862
• Lucidella inaequalis (Pfeiffer, 1859)
• Lucidella kobelti Wagner, 1910

subgenus Perenna

• Lucidella foxi Pilsbry, 1899
• Lucidella lineata (C. B. Adams, 1845)
• Lucidella nana Pfeiffer, 1857
• Lucidella persculpta Pilsbry & Brown, 1912
• Lucidella yallahsensis Pilsbry & Brown, 1912

subgenus Poenia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1856

• Lucidella adamsiana (Pfeiffer, 1849)
  • Lucidella adamsiana sublaevis H. B. Baker, 1934
• Lucidella coronula (Pfeiffer, 1862)
• Lucidella depressa Gray, 1825
  • Lucidella depressa valida (C. B. Adams, 1851)
• Lucidella pilsbryi Clapp, 1914 - from Honduras
  • Lucidella pilsbryi indecora Pilsbry, 1930
• Lucidella midyetti Richards, 1938 - from Honduras

subgenus ?

• Lucidella granulum (Gundlach in Pfeiffer, 1864)
• Lucidella granum (Pfeiffer, 1856)
• Lucidella lirata (L. Pfeiffer, 1847) - from Mexico to Costa Rica
• Lucidella rugosa (Pfeiffer, 1839)
• Lucidella tantilla (Pilsbry, 1902) - ochre drop
• Lucidella sp. from Dominica

Further reading

• Boss K. J. & Jacobson M. K. (1974). "Monograph of the genus Lucidella in Cuba (Prosobranchia: Helicinidae)". Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4: 481-27.
• Boss K. J. & Jacobson M. K. (1974). "Catalogue of the taxa of Lucidella (Prosobranchia: Helicinidae)". Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4: 4929-38.
• Pilsbry H. A. (1928). "Review of the species of Lucidella belonging to the subgenus Poeniella (Helicinidae) of Haiti and Santo Domingo". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 80: 479-482, plate 27.

External links

• http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=Lucidella