Pyrgula

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Pyrgula
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Photo of apertural view of shells of Pyrgula annulata
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Pyrgula

Cristofori & Jan, 1832 [1]
Synonyms [2]
  • PyrgidiumToumouër, 1869
  • PirgulaBrusina, 1881
  • PyrgiscusHerrmannsen, 1848

Pyrgula is a genus of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. [3] [4]

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Pyrgula is the type genus of the subfamily Pyrgulinae. [3] Pyrgula annulata is the type species of the genus Pyrgula.

Species

Species within the genus Pyrgula include:

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References

  1. Cristofori & Jan (1832). Cat. Mus. (Mantissa Test.), 4.
  2. Kabat A. R. & Hershler R. (1993). "The prosobranch snail family Hydrobiidae (Gastropoda: Rissooidea): review of classification and supraspecific taxa". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 547: 1-94. PDF.
  3. 1 2 Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia . Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN   3-925919-72-4. ISSN   0076-2997.
  4. Bouchet, P. (2014). Pyrgula de Cristofori & Jan, 1832. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575798 on 2014-11-11
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Pyrgula. Fauna Europaea, last update 27 January 2011, accessed 11 June 2011.