Mercuria (gastropod)

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Mercuria
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Shell of Mercuria bourguignati (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Subfamily: Mercuriinae
Boeters & Falkner, 2017
Genus: Mercuria
Boeters, 1971 [1]
Type species
Amnicola confusa
Frauenfeld, 1863
Synonyms [2]
  • AnatinianaFagot, 1892 (invalid: junior homonym of AnatinianaBourguignat, 1881 [Unionidae])
  • CyrniacanaFagot, 1892 (declared nomen oblitum vs Mercuria nomen protectum)
  • SimilianaFagot, 1892 (invalid: junior homonym of SimilianaFagot, 1891 [Chondrinidae])

Mercuria is a genus of small brackish water snails or freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae. [3]

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Species

Species within the genus Mercuria include: [4]

Species brought into synonymy

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<i>Bythinella</i> Genus of gastropods

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<i>Pseudamnicola</i> Genus of gastropods

Pseudamnicola is a genus of small brackish water snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Pseudamnicolinae of the family Hydrobiidae.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Moitessieriidae</span> Family of gastropods

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<i>Islamia</i> Genus of gastropods

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Corrosella is a genus of minute freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the subfamily Pseudamnicolinae of the family Hydrobiidae.

<i>Spiralix</i> Genus of gastropods

Spiralix is a genus of very small aquatic snails, operculate gastropod mollusks in the family Moitessieriidae.

References

  1. ↑ Boeters, H. D. (1971). Pseudamnicola Paulucci, 1878 und Mercuria n. gen. (Prosobranchia, Hydrobiidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde101: 177.
  2. ↑ "Mercuria". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  3. ↑ Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN   0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
  4. ↑ "Taxon Details: Mercuria Boeters 1971". Fauna Europaea. Archived from the original on July 27, 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  5. 1 2 Glöer P., Bouzid S. & Boeters H. D. (2010). "Revision of the genera Pseudamnicola Paulucci 1878 and Mercuria Boeters 1971 from Algeria with particular emphasis on museum collections (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Hydrobiidae)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 139(1): 1-22. doi : 10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/139/001-022.
  6. ↑ Van Damme, D. & Ghamizi, M. 2010. Mercuria letourneuxiana (Bourguignat, 1862). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T184749A8326304.en
  7. ↑ Chlyeh G., Dodet M., Delay B., Khallaayoune K. & Jarne P. (2006). "Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Freshwater Snail Species in Relation to Migration and Environmental Factors in an Irrigated Area from Morocco". Hydrobiologia 553(1): 129-142. doi : 10.1007/s10750-005-0968-9.
  8. ↑ Gofas, S. (2022). "Mercuria confusa". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  9. ↑ "Mercuria emiliana". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

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