Miratesta

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Miratesta
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Hygrophila
Family: Planorbidae
Genus: Miratesta
P. Sarasin & F. Sarasin, 1897 [1]
Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.MOL.237807 - Miratesta celebensis Sarasin & Sarasin, 1898 - Planorbidae - Mollusc shell.jpeg

Miratesta is a genus of freshwater air-breathing snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids. All species in this genus have sinistral or left-coiling shells.

Miratesta is the type genus of the tribe Miratestini. [2]

Species

Species within the genus Miratesta include:

References

  1. ↑ (in German) Sarasin P. & Sarasin F. (1897). "Über die Molluskenfauna der großen Süßwasser-Seen von Central-Celebes". Zoologischer Anzeiger 20: 241-245. page 242.
  2. ↑ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia . 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN   3-925919-72-4. ISSN   0076-2997.
  3. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2000). "Miratesta celebensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2000: e.T13580A4203152. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T13580A4203152.en . Retrieved 15 November 2021.


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