# Bourciera

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***Bourciera*** is a [genus](/source/Genus) of [neotropical](/source/Neotropical) [terrestrial](/source/Terrestrial_animal) [gastropod](/source/Gastropod) [mollusks](/source/Mollusk) or [land snails](/source/Land_snail) in the family [Helicinidae](/source/Helicinidae). All species in the genus have an [operculum](/source/Operculum_(gastropod)).

In 1907, an attempt was made to rename the genus *Pseudhelicina*, sometimes corrected to *Pseudohelicina,* on the basis of the fact that *Bourciera* was also the name of a genus of birds, but according to MolluscaBase this replacement was unnecessary and *Bourciera* is still used.[2] H. Burrington Baker considered *Bourciera* among the most primitive of terrestrial mollusks.[3]

## Distribution

The genus was initially described from Ecuador based on specimens collected by [Jules Bourcier](/source/Jules_Bourcier), after whom it was named. It is also known to occur in Peru.[4]

## Species

Species within the genus *Bourciera* include:

- *[Bourciera fraseri](/source/Bourciera_fraseri)* Pfeiffer 1859[5]
- *[Bourciera helicinaeformis](/source/Bourciera_helicinaeformis)* Pfeiffer 1853[6]
- *[Bourciera striatula](/source/Bourciera_striatula)* Miller 1879[7]
- *[Bourciera viridissima](/source/Bourciera_viridissima)* Miller 1879[8]

## References

1. [Pfeiffer L.](/source/Louis_Pfeiffer) (1852). Conspectus Cyclostomaceorum (Schluss).*Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie*: 8:177–178.*Bourciera* is on page 178.

1. Sykes, E. R. (1907). The name *Bourcieria.* *Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London.* 7(6): 312.

1. Baker, H. Burrington. (1925).Anatomy of Hendersonia: A Primitive Helicinid Mollusk *Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia*. 77:273-303

1. Ramírez R., Paredes C., Arenas J. (2003). Moluscos del Perú. *Revista de Biología Tropical.*: 51(supplement 3): 225-284.

1. [Pfeiffer L.](/source/Louis_Pfeiffer) (1859). Descriptions of twenty-seven new species of land-shells, from the collection of H. Cuming, Esq. *Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London*: 27 (385): 23–29, pls 43–44.

1. [Pfeiffer L.](/source/Louis_Pfeiffer) (1853). *Monographia heliceorum viventium: sistens descriptiones systematicas et criticas omnium huius familiae generum et specierum hodie cognitarum.*: 3. Lipsiae: Brockhaus, 1–711. *Bourciera* is in figs. 9a-9c.

1. Miller, Konrad (1879). Die Binnenmollusken von Ecuador. *Malakozoologische Blätter* 26[(n. s.)]1: 117-203

1. Miller, Konrad (1879). Die Binnenmollusken von Ecuador. *Malakozoologische Blätter* 26[(n. s.)]1: 117-203

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