| Boucardicus | |
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| Shell of Boucardicus goudoti (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Mollusca | 
| Class: | Gastropoda | 
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda | 
| Order: | Architaenioglossa | 
| Superfamily: | Cyclophoroidea | 
| Family: | Cyclophoridae | 
| Genus: | Boucardicus Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965[1]  | 
| Type species | |
| Acroptychia notabilis E. A. Smith, 1892 | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
| 
 Madecataulus Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965  | |
Boucardicus is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Cyclophoridae.[2]
It is endemic to Madagascar, consist 199 species and 5 subspecies.[3] Type species is Boucardicus notabilis (Smith, 1892).[3] Included species are very diverse, some species are medium-sized (about 10 mm) with conical shell, some are small (height 1.5-3.5 mm) with cylindrical "pupilloid-like" shell.[3]
Species
Species within the genus Boucardicus include:
- Boucardicus notabilis (type species)
 - Boucardicus albocinctus
 - Boucardicus antiquus
 - Boucardicus carylae
 - Boucardicus culminans
 - Boucardicus curvifolius
 - Boucardicus delicatus
 - Boucardicus divei
 - Boucardicus esetrae
 - Boucardicus fidimananai
 - Boucardicus fortistriatus
 - Boucardicus goudoti (Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965)
 - Boucardicus magnilobatus
 - Boucardicus mahermanae
 - Boucardicus rakotoarisoni
 - Boucardicus randalanai
 - Boucardicus simplex
 - Boucardicus tridentatus
 - Boucardicus victorhernandezi
 - Boucardicus anjarae[4]
 - Boucardicus avo[4]
 - Boucardicus hetra[4]
 - Boucardicus lalinify[4]
 - Boucardicus mahavariana[4]
 - Boucardicus matoatoa[4]
 - Boucardicus menoi[4]
 - Boucardicus peggyae[4]
 - Boucardicus pulchellus[4]
 - Boucardicus tantelyae[4]
 - Boucardicus monchenkoi[3]
 - Boucardicus ambindaensis[3]
 
References
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- ↑ Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha (1965). Mém. Mus. natn. Hist. nat. Paris (N.S.) (A) 33: 63.
 - 1 2 MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Boucardicus Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995564 on 2021-06-20
 - 1 2 3 4 5 Balashov I. & Griffiths O. (2015). "Two new species of minute land snails from Madagascar: Boucardicus monchenkoi sp. nov. and B. ambindaensis sp. nov. (Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoridae)". Zootaxa. 4052(2): 237-240. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4052.2.9
 - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Emberton K C., Slapcinsky J., Campbell C. A., Rakotondrazafy J. A., Andriamiarison T. N. & Emberton J. D. (2010). "Terrestrial mollusks of Andriantantely Massif, Eastern Madagascar, with descriptions of 36 new species (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda; Pulmonata)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 139(1): 71-141. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/139/071-141
 
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