Pleuroxia

Pleuroxia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Hadrinae of the family Camaenidae.^[2]

Pleuroxia
Shell of Pleuroxia cyrtopleura (lectotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Infraorder:	Helicoidei
Superfamily:	Helicoidea
Family:	Camaenidae
Genus:	Pleuroxia Ancey 1887[1]
Type species
Helix cyrtopleura L. Pfeiffer, 1862
Synonyms
Angasella A. Adams in Angas, 1864 (not used after 1899 as erroneously considered a homonym of Angasiella Crosse, 1864) Angasietta Iredale, 1939 Gantomia Iredale, 1939

Species

Species within the genus Pleuroxia include:

• Pleuroxia abstans Iredale, 1939
• Pleuroxia carmeena G.A. Solem, 1993
• Pleuroxia clydonigera R. Tate, 1894
• Pleuroxia cyrtopleura (Pfeiffer, 1862)
• Pleuroxia everardensis (Bednall, 1892)
• Pleuroxia italowiana Solem, 1992
• Pleuroxia lemani G.P.L.K. Gude, 1916
• Pleuroxia overlanderensis G.A. Solem, 1997
• Pleuroxia phillipsiana (Angas, 1873)

Synonyms

• Pleuroxia adcockiana (Bednall, 1894): synonym of Granulomelon adcockianum (Bednall, 1894)
• Pleuroxia arcigerens Tate, 1894: synonym of Granulomelon adcockianum (Bednall, 1894)
• Pleuroxia bethana Solem, 1997: synonym of Basedowena bethana (Solem, 1997) (original combination)
• Pleuroxia commenta Iredale, 1939: synonym of Basedowena polypleura (Tate, 1899) (junior synonym)
• Pleuroxia cooperi Cotton, 1939: synonym of Pleuroxia phillipsiana (Angas, 1873) (junior synonym)
• Pleuroxia elfina Iredale, 1939: synonym of Basedowena elfina (Iredale, 1939)
• Pleuroxia hinsbyi Gude, 1916: synonym of Basedowena hinsbyi (Gude, 1916) (superseded combination)
• Pleuroxia mawsoni Iredale, 1937: synonym of Cooperconcha mawsoni (Iredale, 1937) (original combination)
• Pleuroxia musga Iredale, 1937: synonym of Tatemelon musgum (Iredale, 1937) (original combination)
• Pleuroxia oligopleura (Tate, 1894): synonym of Basedowena oligopleura (Tate, 1894)
• Pleuroxia polypleura (Tate, 1899): synonym of Basedowena polypleura (Tate, 1899)
• Pleuroxia radiata (Hedley, 1905): synonym of Basedowena radiata (Hedley, 1905)
• Pleuroxia ruga otton, 1953: synonym of Strepsitaurus rugus (Cotton, 1953) (original combination)