Fukuia ooyagii

Fukuia ooyagii
A live individual of Fukuia ooyagii viewed from the anterior end
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Pomatiopsidae
Genus:	Fukuia
Species:	F. ooyagii
Binomial name
Fukuia ooyagii Minato, 1982
Synonyms
Fukuia kurodai ooyagii Minato, 1982

Fukuia ooyagii is a species of freshwater snail which has an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae. ^[1]

Taxonomy

According to the molecular analyses of 18S ribosomal RNA, 28S ribosomal RNA, 16S ribosomal RNA, and cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) genes by Kameda & Kato (2011) ^[1] Fukuia ooyagii should be separated from Fukuia , and its generic assignment should be determined coupled with the investigation of its soft-part morphology. ^[1] The most closely related genus is Blanfordia . ^[1]

Distribution

This species is endemic to the northern part of Honshu, Japan. ^[1]

A live Fukuia ooyagii clinging to a wet rocky wall

Ecology

This species is freshwater snail living in mountain streamlets. ^[1]

References

This article incorporates CC-BY-2.0 text from the reference ^[1]

1. 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 .