Culmenella

Culmenella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Superorder:	Hygrophila
Family:	Planorbidae
Genus:	Culmenella Clench, 1927 [1]
Synonyms [2]
Bulinus (Culmenella)Clench, 1927 Camptoceras (Culmenella)Clench, 1927 Culmenella (Culmenellina)Starobogatov & Prozorova, 1990; junior synonym

Culmenella is a genus of freshwater gastropods in the family Planorbidae. ^[2]

Taxonomy

Culmenella was originally described as a subgenus of Bulinus by Clench in 1927. Culmenella prashadi is the type species. ^[1]

Species

The species in this genus are as follows: ^[2]

Species

• Culmenella jiraponi (Hubendick, 1967)
• Culmenella lineata (H. F. Blanford, 1871)
• Culmenella prashadi (Clench, 1931)
• Culmenella rezvoji (Lindholm, 1929)
• Culmenella subspinosa (Annandale & Prashad, 1920)

Species inquirenda

• Culmenella buldowskii Starobogatov & Prozorova, 1990
• Culmenella lindholmi Starobogatov & Prozorova, 1990

References

1. Clench, William J. (1927). "A new subgenus and species of Bulinus from Japan". The Nautilus . 40 (4): 121. ISSN   0028-1344. LCCN   sf80000648. OCLC   1759527 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
2. Bouchet, Philippe (2025). "Culmenella Clench, 1927". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 4 October 2025.

• Starobogatov Ya.I., Prozorova L.A. (1990). Species composition of the family Bulinidae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) in the waterbodies of the USSR (with notes on the system of subfamily Camptoceratinae). Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal. 69 (4): 27-37. (In Russian).
• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent freshwater/brackish Gastropoda of the World. Last update: January 24th, 2018.
• Vinarski, M. V.; Kantor, Yu. I. (2016). Analytical catalogue of fresh and brackish water molluscs of Russia and adjacent countries. A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, 544 pp.