Pseudotachea is a genus of medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Helicinae of the family Helicidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Pseudotachea C. R. Boettger, 1909. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996426 on 2021-02-10
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)
References
Pfeffer, G. (1930). Zur Kenntnis tertiärer Landschnecken. Geologisch-Paläontologische Abhandlungen, neue Folge. 17(3): 153–380, pl. 15–17. Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
External links
Boettger, C.R. (1909). Ein Beitrag zur Erforschung der europäischen Heliciden. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 41(1): 1-19