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Acroptychia Crosse & P. Fischer, 1877

995562  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:995562)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Gastropoda (Class)
  5. Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
  6. Architaenioglossa (Order)
  7. Cyclophoroidea (Superfamily)
  8. Hainesiidae (Family)
  9. Hainesiinae (Subfamily)
  10. Acroptychia (Genus)
accepted
Genus
Euptychia Crosse & P. Fischer, 1873 · unaccepted (junior primary homonym of...)  
junior primary homonym of Euptychia Hübner, 1816 [Lepidoptera]; Acroptychia is a replacement name

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  1. Species Acroptychia aequivoca (L. Pfeiffer, 1857)
  2. Species Acroptychia bathiei Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965
  3. Species Acroptychia bigoti Fischer-Piette, F. Blanc & F. Salvat, 1969
  4. Species Acroptychia boulangeri (Fischer-Piette, C. P. Blanc, F. Blanc & F. Salvat, 1993)
  5. Species Acroptychia culminans Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965
  6. Species Acroptychia culminans (Fischer-Piette, C. P. Blanc, F. Blanc & F. Salvat, 1993) (accepted > unreplaced junior homonym, secondary junior homonym of Acroptychia culminans Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965)
  7. Species Acroptychia mahafinaritra K. C. Emberton, Slapcinsky, C. A. Campbell, Rakotondrazafy, Andriamiarison & J. D. Emberton, 2010
  8. Species Acroptychia metableta (Crosse & P. Fischer, 1873)
  9. Species Acroptychia milloti Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965
  10. Species Acroptychia optio (Fischer-Piette, C. P. Blanc, F. Blanc & F. Salvat, 1993)
  11. Species Acroptychia pauliana Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965
  12. Species Acroptychia pauper Fischer-Piette, F. Blanc & F. Salvat, 1969
  13. Species Acroptychia pyramidalis Sykes, 1900
  14. Species Acroptychia salvati (Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965)
  15. Species Acroptychia tubularis (Morelet, 1861)
  16. Species Acroptychia albocincta E. A. Smith, 1893 accepted as Boucardicus albocinctus (E. A. Smith, 1893) (original combination)
  17. Species Acroptychia grandidieri Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965 accepted as Acroptychia metableta (Crosse & P. Fischer, 1873)
  18. Species Acroptychia manicata Crosse & P. Fischer, 1883 accepted as Acroptychia aequivoca (L. Pfeiffer, 1857) (junior synonym)
  19. Species Acroptychia metablata [sic] accepted as Acroptychia metableta (Crosse & P. Fischer, 1873) (misspelling)
  20. Species Acroptychia notabilis E. A. Smith, 1892 accepted as Boucardicus notabilis (E. A. Smith, 1892) (original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
Crosse, H.; Fischer, P. (1877). Note sur le nouveau genre <i>Acroptychia</i> de Madagascar. <em>Journal de Conchyliologie.</em> 25: 70., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16223301
note: Nom. nov. for Euptychia Crosse & Fischer, 1873 (non Hübner, 1816) [details] 
Nomenclature Nom. nov. for Euptychia Crosse & Fischer, 1873 (non Hübner, 1816)  
Nomenclature Nom. nov. for Euptychia Crosse & Fischer, 1873 (non Hübner, 1816) [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Acroptychia Crosse & P. Fischer, 1877. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995562 on 2025-09-11
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2017-06-15 07:29:09Z
created
Bank, Ruud
2020-04-29 08:32:08Z
changed
Köhler, Frank
2020-07-14 08:28:36Z
changed
Herbert, David
2024-12-14 00:38:19Z
changed
Páll-Gergely, Barna

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original description Crosse, H.; Fischer, P. (1877). Note sur le nouveau genre <i>Acroptychia</i> de Madagascar. <em>Journal de Conchyliologie.</em> 25: 70., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16223301
note: Nom. nov. for Euptychia Crosse & Fischer, 1873 (non Hübner, 1816) [details] 

original description (of Euptychia Crosse & P. Fischer, 1873) Crosse, H. & Fischer, P. (1873). Diagnoses Molluscorum novorum, insulae Madagascar dictae incolarum. <em>Journal de Conchyliologie.</em> 21 (2): 156-159., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15145031
page(s): 156 [details] 

original description (of Anceyiella Mabille, 1886) Mabille, J. (1886). Diagnoses testarum novarum. Bulletin de la Société Philomatique de Paris, (7) 10 (3): 123-135; (7) 10 (4): 182-183. Paris, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31945887
page(s): 128. [details] 

basis of record Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017. [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Páll-Gergely, B., Ruthensteiner, B., Harl, J., Magonyi, N.M., Asami, T., Krizsik, K., Schwaha, T. & Fehér, Z. (2024). Recurrent evolution of breathing microtunnel system in terrestrial operculate snails (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoroidea). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 202: zlae158 [12 December]., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae158 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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Classification There is molecular evidence suggesting that Acroptychia (and perhaps Hainesia as well) represents a distinct family level lineage within the Cyclophoroidea [details]

Nomenclature Nom. nov. for Euptychia Crosse & Fischer, 1873 (non Hübner, 1816) [details]
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