Benedictia maxima

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Benedictia maxima
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Neotaenioglossa
Family: Lithoglyphidae
Genus: Benedictia
Species:
B. maxima
Binomial name
Benedictia maxima
Dybowski, 1875 [1]
Synonyms

Hydrobia maxima W. Dybowski, 1875

Benedictia maxima is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Lithoglyphidae.

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Subspecies

Distribution

Benedictia maxima maxima lives in the southern and central parts of Lake Baikal, Siberia, in depths from 40 to 260 m. [2] The type locality for Benedictia maxima maxima is Kultuk, in southern Baikal. [2]

Benedictia maxima marisminus lives in the northern part of Lake Baikal, in depths from 20 to 220 m. [2] The type locality for Benedictia maxima marisminus is Maloe More, in northern Baikal. [2]

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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 27, plate 1, fig. 24.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 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. (in Russian) Sitnikova T. Ya. [Ситникова Т.Я.] (1987). "К систематике байкальских эндемичных моллюсков семейства Benedictiidae (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia) [To the systematics of baikalian endemic molluscs of the family Benedictiidae (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia)]". Зоологический Журнал Zoologicheskij Zhurnal66(10): 1463–1476. page 1474, fig. 3-4.