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Helenopachnodus Germain, 1931
998772 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:998772)
unaccepted > unavailable name (unavailable name: no type species, no description)
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Germain, L. (1931). L'origine et l'évolution de la faune malacologique de l'ile de Sainte-Hélène. <em>Comptes Rendus du Congrès des Sociétés Savantes (1929), Section des Sciences.</em> 161-180., available online at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5426534w/f163.item
page(s): 169 [details]
page(s): 169 [details]
Nomenclature Crowley & Pain [1977, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Annales, Série in 8o, Sciences Zoologiques, 220: 551] designated...
Nomenclature Crowley & Pain [1977, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Annales, Série in 8o, Sciences Zoologiques, 220: 551] designated Helix helena Quoy & Gaimard, 1832, as type species, but they treated Helenopachnodus as a synonym of Chilonopsis, and thereby did not make it an available name. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Helenopachnodus Germain, 1931. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=998772 on 2025-09-11
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Germain, L. (1931). L'origine et l'évolution de la faune malacologique de l'ile de Sainte-Hélène. <em>Comptes Rendus du Congrès des Sociétés Savantes (1929), Section des Sciences.</em> 161-180., available online at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5426534w/f163.item
page(s): 169 [details]
source of synonymy Gerlach, J.; Griffiths, O.; Hume, J. P.; Louchart, A.; Sorrel, P.; Cairns-Wicks, R. (2025). Diversity of the extinct land snail genus <i>Chilonopsis</i> of St Helena (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Achatinidae). <em>European Journal of Taxonomy.</em> 1007: 176-210., available online at https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.1007.3007
page(s): 184 [details] Available for editors
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source of synonymy Schileyko, A. A. (1998). Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs. Part 2. Gastrocoptidae, Hypselostomatidae, Vertiginidae, Truncatellinidae, Pachnodidae, Enidae, Sagdidae. <em>Ruthenica.</em> Supplement 2: 129-261. Moskva [November].
page(s): 181 [details]
page(s): 169 [details]
source of synonymy Gerlach, J.; Griffiths, O.; Hume, J. P.; Louchart, A.; Sorrel, P.; Cairns-Wicks, R. (2025). Diversity of the extinct land snail genus <i>Chilonopsis</i> of St Helena (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Achatinidae). <em>European Journal of Taxonomy.</em> 1007: 176-210., available online at https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.1007.3007
page(s): 184 [details] Available for editors
[request]source of synonymy Schileyko, A. A. (1998). Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs. Part 2. Gastrocoptidae, Hypselostomatidae, Vertiginidae, Truncatellinidae, Pachnodidae, Enidae, Sagdidae. <em>Ruthenica.</em> Supplement 2: 129-261. Moskva [November].
page(s): 181 [details]
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Nomenclature Crowley & Pain [1977, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Annales, Série in 8o, Sciences Zoologiques, 220: 551] designated Helix helena Quoy & Gaimard, 1832, as type species, but they treated Helenopachnodus as a synonym of Chilonopsis, and thereby did not make it an available name. [details]
