Bocourtia is a genus of tropical air-breathing land snails, a pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Bulimulinae of the family Bulimulidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Bocourtia Rochebrune, 1882. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995854 on 2020-06-14
Characteristics (Original description in Latin) The shell is imperforate and ovate-oblong in shape. It is furrowed with grooves and possesses somewhat ventricose whorls, which are covered by a tawny-colored epidermis. The columella is slightly callous and curved. The aperture is ovate-elliptic, while the outer lip is straight and simple.Rochebrune, A.-T., 1881 Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris, 6(7): Paris
Species Species within the genus Bocourtia include:
Bocourtia aequatorius (L. Pfeiffer, 1853) Bocourtia alauda (Hupé, 1857) Bocourtia altorum (Haas, 1951) Bocourtia angrandi (Morelet, 1860) Bocourtia anthisanensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1854) Bocourtia aquila (Reeve, 1848) Bocourtia aurea (Breure, 1978) Bocourtia badia (G. B. Sowerby I, 1835) Bocourtia bicolor (G. B. Sowerby I, 1835) † Bocourtia bonariensis Miquel, 2019 Bocourtia caliginosa (Reeve, 1849) Bocourtia coagulata (Reeve, 1849) Bocourtia confusa (Reeve, 1848) Bocourtia costifer (Pilsbry, 1932) Bocourtia costulata (Weyrauch, 1967) Bocourtia cotopaxiensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1853) Bocourtia culminea (d'Orbigny, 1835) Bocourtia cuzcoensis (Weyrauch, 1967) Bocourtia edwardsi (Morelet, 1863) Bocourtia filaris (L. Pfeiffer, 1854) Bocourtia gayi (L. Pfeiffer, 1857) Bocourtia hendeensis (Pilsbry, 1926) † Bocourtia leonardodavincii Miquel, 2024 Bocourtia lithoica (d'Orbigny, 1835) Bocourtia longitudinalis (Haas, 1955) Bocourtia macedoi (Weyrauch, 1967) Bocourtia minuta (Breure, 1978) Bocourtia nemorensis (Philippi, 1867) Bocourtia ochracea (Morelet, 1863) Bocourtia peakei (Breure, 1978) Bocourtia petiti (L. Pfeiffer, 1846) Bocourtia pluto (Crosse, 1869) Bocourtia polymorpha (d'Orbigny, 1835) Bocourtia promethus (Crosse, 1869) Bocourtia purpurata (Reeve, 1849) Bocourtia pyramidalis (Breure, 1978) Bocourtia revinctus (Hupé, 1857) Bocourtia thamnoica (d'Orbigny, 1835) Bocourtia tupacii (d'Orbigny, 1835) Bocourtia weddellii (Hupé, 1857)
Species brought into synonymy Bocourtia lymnaeformis Rochebrune, 1881: synonym of Bocourtia anthisanensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
References
Breure, A. S. H. (1978). Notes on and descriptions of Bulimulidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden. 164: 3–255 Hylton Scott M.I. (1951). Kuschelenia, nuevo género de Bulimulidae (Moll. Pulmonata). Acta Zoologica Lilloana. 12: 539–543. Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017