Fukuia kurodai

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Fukuia kurodai
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A pair of Fukuia kurodai kurodai mating above the water line
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Pomatiopsidae
Genus: Fukuia
Species:
F. kurodai
Binomial name
Fukuia kurodai
Abbott & Hunter, 1949

Fukuia kurodai is a species of amphibious freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae. [1]

Contents

Fukuia kurodai is the type species of the genus Fukuia.

Subspecies

There are two [1] subspecies of Fukuia kurodai:

Distribution

This species is endemic to Honshu, Japan. [1]

Dripping rocks covered with bryophytes beside a waterfall are inhabited by the amphibious species Fukuia kurodai Fukuia kurodai habitat.png
Dripping rocks covered with bryophytes beside a waterfall are inhabited by the amphibious species Fukuia kurodai

Ecology

This species is a freshwater snail which lives in mountain streamlets. [1] It is also an amphibious snail and it is often arboreal. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Kameda Y. & Kato M. (2011). "Terrestrial invasion of pomatiopsid gastropods in the heavy-snow region of the Japanese Archipelago". BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 118. doi : 10.1186/1471-2148-11-118 .
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