Plectopylis is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Plectopylidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Plectopylis Benson, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=870861 on 2021-03-09
Plectopylis is the type genus of the family Plectopylidae.
Species Species in the genus Plectopylis include: Plectopylis anguina (Gould, 1847) † Plectopylis antiquus Yü & Pan, 1982 Plectopylis cairnsi (Gude, 1898) Plectopylis crassilabris Páll-Gergely, 2018 Plectopylis cyclaspis (Benson, 1859) - synonym: Plectopylis revoluta Pfeiffer, 1867 Plectopylis feddeni (W. Blanford, 1865) Plectopylis karenorum (W. Blanford, 1865) Plectopylis linterae (Möllendorff, 1897) Plectopylis malayana Páll-Gergely, 2018 Plectopylis ponsonbyi (Godwin-Austen, 1888) Plectopylis repercussa (Gould, 1856) Plectopylis thompsoni Páll-Gergely, 2018 Species brought into synonymy Plectopylis bensoni (Gude, 1914): synonym of Plectopylis repercussa (Gould, 1856) Plectopylis goniobathmos (Ehrmann, 1922): synonym of Chersaecia goniobathmos (Ehrmann, 1922) (original combination) Plectopylis leucochilus (Gude, 1897): synonym of Chersaecia leucochila (Gude, 1898) (original combination) Plectopylis lissochlamys (Gude, 1897): synonym of Chersaecia magna (Gude, 1897) (junior synonym) Plectopylis magna (Gude, 1897): synonym of Chersaecia magna (Gude, 1897) (original combination) Plectopylis woodthorpei (Gude, 1899): synonym of Chersaecia woodthorpei (Gude, 1899) (original combination)
References
Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
External links Benson, W. H. (1860). Notes on Plectopylis, a group of Helicidae distinguished by several internal plicate epiphragms; with the characters of a new species. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 3. 5(28): 243-247