Pseudotachea

Pseudotachea is a genus of medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Helicinae of the family Helicidae.^[1]

Pseudotachea
Shell of Pseudotachea liturata (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Helicidae
Subfamily:	Helicinae
Tribe:	Allognathini
Genus:	Pseudotachea C. R. Boettger, 1909
Type species
Helix splendida Draparnaud, 1801
Synonyms
Helix (Pseudotachea) C. R. Boettger, 1909

Like many Helicidae, this genus of snails create and use love darts.

Species

• Pseudotachea liturata (L. Pfeiffer, 1851)
• Pseudotachea splendida (Draparnaud, 1801)

Species inquirendum

• † Pseudotachea torresi (Roman, 1907)

Species brought into synonymy

• Pseudotachea cotteri (Roman, 1907) †: synonym of Megalotachea cotteri (Roman, 1907) †
• Pseudotachea ogerieni (Delafond & Depéret, 1893) †: synonym of Frechenia ogerieni (Delafond & Depéret, 1893) †
• Pseudotachea tersannensis (Locard, 1878) †: synonym of Megalotachea delphinensis (Fontannes, 1876) † (junior synonym)