Plectotropis E. von Martens 1860

Plectotropis is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Camaenidae.^[1]

Nomenclature

Plectotropis is a substitute name for Thea Albers, 1850, junior homonym of Thea Mulsant, 1846. Martens designated Helix elegantissima L. Pfeiffer, 1849 as type species, which was not originally included in Thea. ^[1]

Species

Taxa inquerenda

• Plectotropis comata Sturany, 1899
• Plectotropis scabricula (A. Adams, 1868)
• Plectotropis setocincta (A. Adams, 1868)

Synonyms

• Plectotropis oldhami (Benson, 1859): synonym of Aegista oldhami (Benson, 1859)

References

• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017