{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox |taxon = Boucardicus |image = Madecataulus goudoti (MNHN-IM-2000-31764).jpeg |image_caption = Shell of ''Boucardicus goudoti'' (holotype at MNHN, Paris) |authority = Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965<ref>Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha (1965). ''Mém. Mus. natn. Hist. nat. Paris'' (N.S.) (A) '''33''': 63.</ref> |type_species = ''Acroptychia notabilis'' <small>E. A. Smith, 1892</small> |synonyms_ref = <ref name="WoRMS" /> |synonyms = ''Madecataulus'' <small>Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965</small> |display_parents= 3 }}

'''''Boucardicus''''' is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Hainesiidae.<ref name="WoRMS">MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Boucardicus Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995564 on 2021-06-20</ref>

It is endemic to Madagascar, consist 199 species and 5 subspecies.<ref name="Balashov & Griffiths 2015">Balashov I. & Griffiths O. (2015). "Two new species of minute land snails from Madagascar: ''Boucardicus monchenkoi'' sp. nov. and ''B. ambindaensis'' sp. nov. (Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoridae)". ''Zootaxa''. '''4052'''(2): 237-240. {{doi|10.11646/zootaxa.4052.2.9}}</ref> Type species is ''Boucardicus notabilis'' (Smith, 1892).<ref name="Balashov & Griffiths 2015"/> Included species are very diverse, some species are medium-sized (about 10&nbsp;mm) with conical shell, some are small (height 1.5-3.5&nbsp;mm) with cylindrical "pupilloid-like" shell.<ref name="Balashov & Griffiths 2015"/>

==Species== Species within the genus ''Boucardicus'' include: * ''Boucardicus notabilis'' (type species) * ''Boucardicus albocinctus'' * ''Boucardicus ambindaensis''<ref name="Balashov & Griffiths 2015"/> * ''Boucardicus antiquus'' * ''Boucardicus carylae'' * ''Boucardicus culminans'' * ''Boucardicus curvifolius'' * ''Boucardicus delicatus'' * ''Boucardicus divei'' * ''Boucardicus esetrae'' * ''Boucardicus fidimananai'' * ''Boucardicus fortistriatus'' * ''Boucardicus goudoti'' <small>(Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965)</small> * ''Boucardicus magnilobatus'' * ''Boucardicus mahermanae'' * ''Boucardicus monchenkoi''<ref name="Balashov & Griffiths 2015"/> * ''Boucardicus rakotoarisoni'' * ''Boucardicus randalanai'' * ''Boucardicus simplex'' * ''Boucardicus tridentatus'' * ''Boucardicus victorhernandezi'' * ''Boucardicus anjarae''<ref name="Emberton 2010">Emberton K C., Slapcinsky J., Campbell C. A., Rakotondrazafy J. A., Andriamiarison T. N. & Emberton J. D. (2010). "Terrestrial mollusks of Andriantantely Massif, Eastern Madagascar, with descriptions of 36 new species (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda; Pulmonata)". ''Archiv für Molluskenkunde'' '''139'''(1): 71-141. {{doi|10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/139/071-141}}</ref> * ''Boucardicus avo''<ref name="Emberton 2010"/> * ''Boucardicus hetra''<ref name="Emberton 2010"/> * ''Boucardicus lalinify''<ref name="Emberton 2010"/> * ''Boucardicus mahavariana''<ref name="Emberton 2010"/> * ''Boucardicus matoatoa''<ref name="Emberton 2010"/> * ''Boucardicus menoi''<ref name="Emberton 2010"/> * ''Boucardicus peggyae''<ref name="Emberton 2010"/> * ''Boucardicus pulchellus''<ref name="Emberton 2010"/> * ''Boucardicus tantelyae''<ref name="Emberton 2010"/>

==References== {{Reflist}} * Emberton, K. C. (2002). The genus Boucardicus, a Madagascan endemic (Gastropoda: Cyclophoridae: Alycaeinae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 130 (1-2): 1-199, 35 plates. * Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.

==External links== * {{cite journal |last1=Páll-Gergely |first1=B. |title=Boucardicus must have microtunnels! Reassignment of three species into Acroptychia (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda: Hainesiidae). |journal=Zootaxa |date=2025 |volume=56662 |issue=287-293 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.5666.2.9}}

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