Cipangopaludina miyagii

Cipangopaludina miyagii
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Family:	Viviparidae
Genus:	Cipangopaludina
Species:	C. miyagii
Binomial name
Cipangopaludina miyagii Kuroda, 1941 [1]

Cipangopaludina miyagii is a species of large, freshwater snail with an operculum and a gill, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae, the river snails. This freshwater snail found only in Southern part of Taiwan. ^{[2] [3]}

Taxonomy

This species was described by Tokubei Kuroda, the famous Japanese malacologist expertised in malacology fauna of Taiwan during its occupation by Japan, in 1941. ^[1] The freshwater snail is classified as a species of the genus Cipangopaludina , and was named after Mr. Miyagi, the one who caught the snail. ^[4] The sample was caught in Takao Prefecture, ^[4] which corresponds to the area of modern-day Kaohsiung City and Pingtung County. The current distribution of the species reflects that it exists in water near grassland of both area. ^{[2] [5] [6]}

References

1. Kuroda, Tokubei (1941). "A Catalogue of Molluscan Shells from Taiwan (Formosa), with Description of new Species". Taibei Imperial University. pp. 65–216. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
2. "Shell base: Cipangopaludina miyagii". The Taiwan Malacofauna Database (in Traditional Chinese and English). Retrieved 2021-09-04.
3. "Cipangopaludina miyagiiKuroda, 1941". TaiBNET . Taiwan: Biodiversity Research Centre, Academia_Sinica.
4. "稜田螺" (in Traditional Chinese). 典藏台灣. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
5. Chao, David; Wu, C. L.; Cheng, C. C. (1999). 東港鎮陸域軟體動物相 [Land and Freshwater Mollusks in Tungkang, Pingtung, Taiwan]. Bulletin of Malacology, Taiwan ROC (in Traditional Chinese and English). 23. The Malacological Society of Taiwan: 55–60. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
6. Pace, Gary L. (1973). "The Freshwater Snails in Taiwan (Formosa)". Malacological Review . Supplement 1. Whitmore Lake, MI(United States): LSA Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan: 1–118. Retrieved 2021-09-04.

• The National Checklist of Taiwan (Catalogue of Life in Taiwan, TaiCoL)