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Boucardicus

Boucardicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Cyclophoridae
Genus: Boucardicus
Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965

Boucardicus is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Cyclophoridae. It is endemic to Madagascar, consist 199 species and 5 subspecies. Type species is Boucardicus notabilis (Smith, 1892). Included species are very diverse, some species are medium sized (about 10 mm) with conical shell, some are small (height 1.5-3.5 mm) with cylindrical "pupilloid-like" shell.

Species within the genus Boucardicus include:



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