Moitessieria

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Moitessieria
Moitessieria boetersi (MNHN-IM-2000-30098).jpeg
Shell of Moitessieria boetersi (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Moitessieriidae
Genus: Moitessieria
Bourguignat, 1863 [1]
Type species
Paludina simoniana
Saint-Simon, 1848

Moitessieria is a genus of minute freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Moitessieriidae. [2]

Contents

Moitessieria is the type genus of the family Moitessieriidae.

Species

Species within the genus Moitessieria include:

Species brought into synonymy

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References

  1. Bourguignat J. R. (1863). Rev. Mag. Zool. (2)15: 433.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2014). Moitessieria Bourguignat, 1863. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=715909 on 2015-02-19
  3. Arrêté fixant la liste des mollusques protégés sur le territoire métropolitain. ministre de l’agriculture et du développement rural et le ministre de l’environnement; Arrêté du 7 octobre 1992; France
  4. Prie V. (2010). "Spiralix rayi". In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 8 February 2013.