Fontigens

Fontigens
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Fontigentidae
Genus:	Fontigens Pilsbry, 1933
Type species
Paludina nicklinianaI. Lea, 1838

Fontigens is a genus of minute freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Fontigentidae . ^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Fontigens include: ^[2]

• Fontigens aldrichi (Call & Beecher, 1886)
• Fontigens antroecetes (Hubricht, 1940)
• Fontigens binneyana Hannibal, 1912
• Fontigens bottimeri (B.Walker, 1925)
• Fontigens cryptica Hubricht, 1963
• Fontigens davisi Dillon, Malabad, Orndorff & H-P. Liu, 2023
• Fontigens hershleri Dillon, Malabad, Orndorff & H-P. Liu, 2023
• Fontigens morrisoni Hershler, Holsinger & Hubricht, 1990
• Fontigens nickliniana (I.Lea, 1838)
• Fontigens orolibas Hubricht, 1957
• † Fontigens palaea Pilsbry, 1953
• Fontigens proserpina (Hubricht, 1940)
• † Fontigens symmetrica Pilsbry, 1953
• Fontigens tartarea Hubricht, 1963
• Fontigens turritella Hubricht, 1976 - Greenbrier cavesnail

Synonyms

• Fontigens holsingeri Hubricht, 1976 - Tapered cavesnail: synonym of Fontigens tartarea Hubricht, 1963 (junior subjective synonym)
• Fontigens oxybelesPilsbry, 1950: synonym of Tryonia aequicostata (Pilsbry, 1890) (junior subjective synonym)
• Fontigens weberiPilsbry, 1950: synonym of Tryonia aequicostata (Pilsbry, 1890) (junior subjective synonym)

References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Fontigens Pilsbry, 1933. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1057294 on 2025-01-22
2. "Fontigens Pilsbry, 1933". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 23 October 2021.

External links

• Pilsbry, H.A. (1933). "Amnicolidae from Wyoming and Oregon". The Nautilus. 7 (1): 12.
• Clessin, S. (1878). "Beiträge zur Mollusken-Fauna Deutschlands". Malakozoologische Blätter. 25: 151.
• Johnson, P. D.; Bogan, A. E.; Brown, K. M.; Burkhead, N. M.; Cordeiro, J. R.; Garner, J. T.; Hartfield, P. D.; Lepitzki, D. A. W.; Mackie, G. L.; Tarpley, T. A.; Tiemann, J. S.; Whelan, N. V.; Strong, E. E. (2013). "Conservation status of freshwater gastropods of Canada and the United States" . Fisheries. 38 (6): 247–282. Bibcode:2013Fish...38..247J. doi:10.1080/03632415.2013.785396.
• Liu, H.-P.; Schroeder, L.; Berry, A.; Dillon, R. T. (2021). "High levels of mitochondrial DNA sequence divergence among isolated populations of Fontigens (Truncatelloidea: Emmericiidae) in eastern USA" . Journal of Molluscan Studies. 87 (3). doi:10.1093/mollus/eyab026.
• Gladstone, N.S. & Whelan, N.V. (2022). "Pushing barcodes to their limits: phylogenetic placement of Fontigens Pilsbry, 1933 (Caenogastropoda: Littorinimorpha: Truncatelloidea) and elevation of Fontigentidae Taylor, 1966". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 88 (1): 1–5. doi: 10.1093/mollus/eyab038 .