# Beckianum

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{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}
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| image = Landshells of the species Beckianum beckianum and a grain of rice.jpg
| image_caption = ''Beckianum beckianum''
| taxon = Beckianum
| authority = Baker, 1961<ref>Baker (1961). ''Nautilus'', Philad. '''75''': 84.</ref>
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'''''Beckianum''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of air-breathing [land snail](/source/land_snail)s, [terrestrial](/source/terrestrial_animal) [pulmonate](/source/pulmonate) [gastropod](/source/gastropod) [mollusk](/source/mollusk)s. This genus in the family [Achatinidae](/source/Achatinidae).<ref name=bank>{{WRMS source|278821|Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.|10 January 2019}}</ref>

==Species==
Species within the genus ''Beckianum'' include:
* ''[Beckianum beckianum](/source/Beckianum_beckianum)'' (Pfeiffer, 1846)<ref name="ecosis.cu">[http://www.ecosis.cu/cenbio/biodiversidadcuba/fauna/mollusca.htm "Mollusca"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718163216/http://www.ecosis.cu/cenbio/biodiversidadcuba/fauna/mollusca.htm |date=July 18, 2011 }}. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.</ref>
* ''[Beckianum sinistrum](/source/Beckianum_sinistrum)'' Martens, 1890
* ''Beckianum'' sp. - besides ''Beckianum beckianum'' and ''Beckianum sinistrum'' there seems to exist another species, endemic to [Nicaragua](/source/List_of_non-marine_molluscs_of_Nicaragua)<ref name="Pérez 2008">{{in lang|es}} Pérez A. M., Sotelo M., Arana I. & López A. (2008). "Diversidad de moluscos gasterópodos terrestres en la región del Pacífico de Nicaragua y sus preferencias de hábitat". ''[Rev. Biol. Trop.](/source/Rev._Biol._Trop.)'' '''56'''(1): 317-332,. [http://www.bio-nica.info/biblioteca/Perez2008Moluscos.pdf PDF]</ref>

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