Glyptophysa

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Glyptophysa
Scientific classification
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Subfamily:
Bulininae [1]
sensu Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005
or
"B-clade" sensu Albrecht et al. (2007) [2]
Genus:
Glyptophysa

Crosse, 1872 [3]
Type species
Physa petitiCrosse, 1872
Synonyms
  • GlyptamodaIredale, 1943
  • LenameriaIredale, 1943
  • MutalenaIredale, 1944
  • PhysastraTapparone Canefri, 1883
  • TasmadoraIredale, 1943

Glyptophysa is a genus of medium-sized sinistral (left-handed) air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family of Planorbidae. [4]

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Description

Shells are medium sized, smooth and globose to elongate. Shells of Glyptophysa are always sinistral. "Members of the genus possess a twist or fold on the columella, a feature lacking in Isidorella and Physella. Whorls round or carinate." [5]

Distribution

Australia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Moluccas, Philippines, Sumatra, islands of South Pacific east to Tahiti, and Malaysia (introduced). [5]

Habitat and ecology

Often found on water weeds, submerged wood, rocks, gravel and sand in ponds, billabongs, swamps, and sluggish streams and rivers(both still and flowing). Occasionally on mud. "Feeds on algae and detritus." [5] Glyptophysa snails are grazers-scrapers.[ citation needed ]

Species

Species in this genus include:

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<i>Bulimulus</i> Genus of gastropods

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Planorbidae Family of gastropods

Planorbidae, common name the ramshorn snails or ram's horn snails, is a family of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod molluscs. Unlike most molluscs, the blood of ram's horn snails contains iron-based hemoglobin instead of copper-based hemocyanin. As a result, planorbids are able to breathe oxygen more efficiently than other molluscs. The presence of hemoglobin gives the body a reddish colour. This is especially apparent in albino animals.

Onchidiidae Family of gastropods

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<i>Euhadra</i> Genus of gastropods

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Australian freshwater limpet Species of gastropod

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Glyptophysa petiti is a species of small sinistral (left-handed) air-breathing freshwater snail, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae.

<i>Lanistes</i> Genus of gastropods

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<i>Neritina</i> Genus of gastropods

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Orthalicidae Family of gastropods

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<i>Chicoreus</i> Genus of gastropods

Chicoreus is a genus of medium- to large-sized predatory sea snails. These are carnivorous marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, the murexes or rock snails.

<i>Asolene</i> Genus of gastropods

Asolene is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.

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Austropyrgus ronkershawi is a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the Hydrobiidae family. This species is endemic to Tasmania, Australia. It is known from a number of small streams and rivers in central northern Tasmania.

Velesunio is a genus of medium to large sized mussels in the family Hyriidae.

Glyptophysa novaehollandica is a freshwater species of gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae.

Bayardella is a genus of small, neritiform cylindrical shelled gastropods belonging to the family Planorbidae. They are native and endemic to Australia. Species of Bayardella, like other Planorbids, are non-operculate.

References

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  2. Albrecht C., Kuhn K. & Streit B. (2007). "A molecular phylogeny of Planorboidea (Gastropoda, Pulmonata): insights from enhanced taxon sampling". Zoologica Scripta 36: 27-39.doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00258.x.
  3. Crosse J. C. H. (1872). J. Conchyliol.20: 151.
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