Pseudopotamis

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Pseudopotamis
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Pseudopotamis

Diversity [2]
2 species

Pseudopotamis is a genus of freshwater snails which have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pachychilidae.

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Distribution

It occurs on the Torres Strait Islands. [2]

A sister group (the closest relative) of Pseudopotamis is genus Tylomelania . [2] Pseudopotamis and Tylomelania split in the Middle Miocene c. 19.5 Mya. [2]

Species

Species within the genus Pseudopotamis include:

Description

Pallial oviduct evolved into an uterine brood (that release shelled juvenile snails). [2]

Ecology

Species in the genus Pseudopotamis are ovoviviparous. [3] [2]

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References

  1. Martens E. (1894). "von Mollusken". In: Semon R. W. (Ed.) Zoologische Forschungsreisen in Australien und dem Malayischen Archipel, Vol. V: Systematik und Thiergeographie, pp. 82–88. Jena, Fischer. Table 4.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 von Rintelen T., Stelbrink B. Marwoto R. M. & Glaubrecht M. (2014). "A Snail Perspective on the Biogeography of Sulawesi, Indonesia: Origin and Intra-Island Dispersal of the Viviparous Freshwater Gastropod Tylomelania". PLoS ONE9(6): e98917. doi : 10.1371/journal.pone.0098917.
  3. 1 2 3 Glaubrecht M. & von Rintelen T. (2003). "Systematics, molecular genetics and historical zoogeography of the viviparous freshwater gastropod Pseudopotamis (Cerithioidea, Pachychilidae): a relic on the Torres Strait Islands, Australia". Zoologica Scripta 32: 415–435. doi : 10.1046/j.1463-6409.2003.00127.x.