Jagora

Jagora
Apertural view of a shell of Jagora asperata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Pachychilidae
Genus:	Jagora Köhler & Glaubrecht, 2003 [1]
Diversity [1]
2 species

Jagora is a genus of freshwater snails which have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pachychilidae.

Distribution

This genus is endemic to the Philippines. ^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Jagora include:

• Jagora asperata (Lamarck, 1822) ^[2] - type species ^[1]
• Jagora dactylus (I. lea & H. C. Lea, 1850) ^{[2] [1]}

References

1. Köhler F. & Glaubrecht M. (2003). "Morphology, reproductive biology and molecular genetics of ovoviviparous freshwater gastropods (Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae) from the Philippines, with description of the new genus Jagora". Zoologica Scripta 32(1): 35-59. doi:10.1046/j.1463-6409.2003.00100.x.
2. Köhler F. & Dames C. (2009). "Phylogeny and systematics of the Pachychilidae of mainland Southeast Asia – novel insights from morphology and mitochondrial DNA (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157: 679-699. doi : 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00541.x.