Esperiana

Esperiana
A live Esperiana esperi out of water
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Melanopsidae
Genus:	Esperiana Bourguignat, 1877 [1]
Synonyms
Melanopsis (Esperiana)Bourguignat, 1877 [2]

Esperiana is a genus of freshwater snails in the family Melanopsidae. ^{[1] [3] [4]} Its closest relatives are Melanopsis and Microcolpia . ^[3] The genus is distributed in southern and eastern Europe ^[5] extending into Anatolia (Lake Sapanca). ^[6]

Species

There are three recognized species: ^[1]

• Esperiana esperi (A. Férussac, 1823)
• Esperiana roseni (Starobogatov, 1992)
• Esperiana sangarica (Schütt & Bilgin, 1974)

References

1. Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O, eds. (2025). "Esperiana Bourguignat, 1877". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 27 March 2025.
2. Bourguignat J. R. (1876). Bull. Soc. Sci. phys. nat. Toulouse3: 88.
3. Falniowski, Andrzej; Heller, Joseph; Cameron, Robert A. D.; Pokryszko, Beata M.; Osikowski, Artur; Rysiewska, Aleksandra & Hofman, Sebastian (2020). "Melanopsidae (Caenogastropoda: Cerithioidea) from the eastern Mediterranean: another case of morphostatic speciation". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 190 (2): 483–507. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz160.
4. Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., ISBN   3-925919-60-0, pp. 190–194.
5. "Esperiana Bourguignat, 1877". Global Biodiversity Information Facility . Retrieved 27 March 2025.
6. Şahin, S. & Yildirim, M. (2007). "The mollusk fauna of Lake Sapanca (Turkey: Marmara) and some physico-chemical parameters of their abundance". Turkish Journal of Zoology. 31 (1): 47–52.