Benedictia

Benedictia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Lithoglyphidae
Subfamily:	Benedictiinae
Genus:	Benedictia Dybowski, 1875 [1]
Diversity [2]
10 species

Benedictia is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Lithoglyphidae. ^[3]

Benedictia is the type genus of the subfamily Benedictiinae. ^[3]

Distribution

The genus Benedictia is endemic to Lake Baikal. ^[4]

Species

Species within the genus Benedictia include:

• Benedictia baicalensis (Gerstfeldt, 1859) ^{[2] [4]}
• Benedictia distinguenda Lindholm, 1924 ^[2]
  • Benedictia distinguenda lamuana Sitnikova, 1987 ^[2]
• Benedictia fragilis W. Dybowski, 1875 - type species ^[2]
• Benedictia kotyensis Matiokin, Dzuban & Sitnikova, 1988 ^{[2] [5]}
• Benedictia limnaeoides (Schrenck, 1867) ^[2]
  • Benedictia limnaeoides ongurensis Kozhov, 1936 ^[2]
  • Benedictia limnaeoides litoralis Kozhov, 1936 ^[2]
• Benedictia maxima (W. Dybowski, 1875) ^{[2] [4]}
  • Benedictia maxima marisminus Sitnikova, 1987 ^[2]
• Benedictia nana Beckman & Starobogatov, 1975 ^[2]
• Benedictia pulchella Sitnikova, 1987 ^[2]
• Benedictia pulchella sarmensis Sitnikova, 1987 ^[2]
• Benedictia pumyla (Lindholm, 1924) ^[2]
• Benedictia shadini Beckman & Starobogatov, 1975 ^[2]

References

1. Dybowski W. (1875). "Die Gastropoden-Fauna des Baikal-Sees, anatomisch und systematisch bearbeitet". Mémories de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.Pétersbourg (7)22(8), 73 pp. page 4.
2. Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on March 2, 2010). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.1 Archived 2016-12-15 at the Wayback Machine
3. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia . 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN   3-925919-72-4. ISSN   0076-2997.
4. Hausdorf, Bernhard; Röpstorf, Peter; Riedel, Frank (2003). "Relationships and origin of endemic Lake Baikal gastropods (Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea) based on mitochondrial DNA sequences". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 26 (3): 435–43. Bibcode:2003MolPE..26..435H. doi:10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00365-2. PMID   12644402..
5. (in Russian) Матекин П. В., Дзубан Т. А. & Ситникова Т. Я. [Matiokin P. V., Dzuban T. A.] & Sitnikova T. Ya. (1988). "О новом виде рода Benedictia (Gastropoda, Benedictiidae) из озера Байкал". ["New species of the genus Benedictia (Gastropoda, Benedictiidae) from Baikal Lake". Зоологический Журнал Zoologicheskij Zhurnal 67(1): 129-135.