Marisa (gastropod)

Marisa
Marisa cornuarietis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Family:	Ampullariidae
Genus:	Marisa J. E. Gray, 1824 [1]

Marisa is a genus of freshwater snails in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.

Species

There are two species:

• Marisa cornuarietis (Linnaeus, 1758) ^[2]
• Marisa planogyra Pilsbry, 1933 ^[2]

Phylogeny

Based on analysis of mitochondrial 12S ribosomal RNA, 16S ribosomal RNA, and the cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) gene, M. cornuarietis is a sister clade to M. planogyra and Asolene spixii , indicating that genus Marisa is not monophyletic. ^[2]

References

1. Gray J. E. (1824). Zoological notices. The Philosophical Magazine and Journal 63: 274-277. page 276.
2. Rawlings, T. A., et al. (2007). The identity, distribution, and impacts on non-native apple snails in the continental United States. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7: 97 doi : 10.1186/1471-2148-7-97.

Further reading

• Cowie R. H. & Thiengo S. C. (2003). The apple snails of the Americas (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: Asolene, Felipponea, Marisa, Pomacea, Pomella): a nomenclatural and type catalog. Malacologia 45: 41-100.