{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = Pycnoptychia humboldtii johnsoni 001.jpg | image_caption = Shell of ''Pycnoptychia humboldtii johnsoni'' (syntype at the Smithsonian Institution) | taxon = Pycnoptychia | authority = Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1898<ref>Pilsbry H. A. & Vanatta E. G. (1898). ''Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad.'' '''1898''': 271, 275.</ref> | synonyms = }}
'''''Pycnoptychia''''' is a genus of a land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Urocoptidae.<ref name="ecosis.cu"/>
== Distribution == This genus lives in Cuba.<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=2011-07-18 }}. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.</ref>
== Ecology == Species in the genus ''Pycnoptychia'' are a ground dwelling species in Cuba.<ref name="Rios 2010">Rios O. M. & Quinta M. H. (2010). "Larval Feeding Habits of the Cuban Endemic Firefly ''Alecton discoidalis'' Laporte (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)". ''Psyche'' '''2010''', Article ID 149879, 5 pages, {{doi|10.1155/2010/149879|doi-access=free}}.</ref>
== Species == Species in the genus ''Pycnoptychia'' include: * ''Pycnoptychia amicorum'' Torre & Bartsch, 2008<ref name="ecosis.cu"/> * ''Pycnoptychia humboldtii'' (Pfeiffer, 1840)<ref name="ecosis.cu"/> * ''Pycnoptychia oviedoiana'' (d’Orbigny, 1842)<ref name="ecosis.cu"/> * ''Pycnoptychia peraffinis'' (Pilsbry, 1903)<ref name="ecosis.cu"/> * ''Pycnoptychia scaeva'' (Gundlach in Pfeiffer, 1863)<ref name="ecosis.cu"/> * ''Pycnoptychia shuttleworthiana'' (Poey, 1856)<ref name="ecosis.cu"/> * ''Pycnoptychia strangulata'' (Poey, 1856)<ref name="ecosis.cu"/> * ''Pycnoptychia striatella'' (Wright in Pfeiffer, 1864)<ref name="ecosis.cu"/> * ''Pycnoptychia torrei'' (Arango, 1876)<ref name="ecosis.cu"/> * ''Pycnoptychia trina'' Torre & Bartsch, 2008<ref name="ecosis.cu"/>
==References== {{Commons category}} {{Wikispecies|Pycnoptychia}} {{Reflist}}
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Category:Urocoptidae Category:Taxa named by Henry Augustus Pilsbry
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