Hydrobia acuta neglecta

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Hydrobia acuta neglecta
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Hydrobia
Species:
Subspecies:
H. a. neglecta
Trinomial name
Hydrobia acuta neglecta
Muus, 1963 [1]
Synonyms
  • Hydrobia neglectaMuus, 1963

Hydrobia acuta neglecta is a European subspecies of small brackish water snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Hydrobiidae. [2]

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Distribution

This species which has a distribution type: oceanic temperate occurs on the coasts of the North Sea, in countries and islands including:

Ecology

Hydrobia acuta neglecta occurs in coastal lagoons where incoming freshwater dilutes sea water. The preferred salinity range is 10-24 ‰. [3]

Status

The status of this taxon is uncertain. Hydrobia neglecta is treated as a full species in Fauna Europaea, [4] but in 1995 it had been suggested that H. neglecta is a synonym of the Mediterranean Hydrobia acuta (Draparnaud). [5] Then a neglecta colony in northern France was shown to be acuta. [6] In 2000 a molecular study concluded that north-west European populations were not specifically distinct from the Mediterranean Hydrobia acuta and designated them subspecies neglecta Muus. [7]

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References

  1. Muus, B. J. (1963). "Some Danish Hydrobiidae with the description of a new species, Hydrobia neglecta". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London . 35 (2): 131-138.
  2. Gofas, S. (2010). Hydrobia acuta neglecta Muus, 1963. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=465551 on 2010-05-05
  3. Fretter, V. & Graham, A. (1978). "The prosobranch molluscs of Britain and Denmark. Part 3 – Neritacea, Viviparacea, Valvatacea, terrestrial and freshwater Littorinacea and Rissoacea". Journal of Molluscan Studies. Suppl. 5: 1-152.
  4. Bank, R., von Proschwitz, T. & Falkner, G. (2006). Unpublished manuscript of the mollusca section of the Fauna Europaea web-site (https://fauna-eu.org).
  5. Giusti, F., Manganelli, G. & Schembri, P. J. (1995). The Non-Marine Molluscs of the Maltese Islands. Monografie XV, Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino.
  6. Hoeksema, D. F. (1998). "Note on the occurrence of Hydrobia acuta (Draparnaud, 1805) (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia: Hydrobiidae) in western Europe, with special reference to a record from S. Brittany, France". Basteria. 61: 101-113
  7. Wilke, T., Rolán, E. & Davis, G. M. (2000). "The mudsnail Genus Hydrobia s.s. in the northern Atlantic and western Mediterranean: a phylogenetic analysis". Marine Biology. 137: 827-833.