Mexinauta

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Mexinauta
Mexinauta impluviatus (MNHN-IM-2000-2626) 001.jpeg
Shell of Mexinauta impluviatus(syntype at MNHN, Paris)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Superorder: Hygrophila
Superfamily: Lymnaeoidea
Family: Physidae
Genus: Mexinauta
D. W. Taylor, 2003
Type species
Physa nitensPhilippi, 1841

Mexinauta is a genus of small, left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Aplexinae of the family Physidae. [1]

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References

  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Mexinauta D. W. Taylor, 2003. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1057350 on 2021-07-16