Rhodacmea

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Rhodacmea
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Two views of a shell of Rhodacmea filosa
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Hygrophila
Family: Planorbidae
Genus: Rhodacmea
Walker, 1917 [1]
Diversity [2]
3 species

Rhodacmea is a genus of small freshwater snails or limpets, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies. [2]

Contents

Rhodacmea is the type genus of the subfamily Rhodacmeinae. [3]

Anatomy

These animals have a pallial lung, as do all pulmonate snails, but they also have a false gill or "pseudobranch". This serves as a gill, which is necessary as, in their non-tidal habitat, these limpets never reach the surface for air.

Species

Species in the genus Rhodacmea include:

References

  1. 1 2 Walker B. (1917). "A revision of the classification of the North American patelliform Ancylidae with descriptions of new species". The Nautilus 31(1): 1-10. page 5. plate 1-plate 3.
  2. 1 2 3 Ó Foighil D., Li J., Lee T., Johnson P., Evans R. & Burch J. B. (2011). "Conservation Genetics of a Critically Endangered Limpet Genus and Rediscovery of an Extinct Species". PLoS ONE 6(5): e20496. doi : 10.1371/journal.pone.0020496 .
  3. 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.
  4. Bogan, A.E. (1996). "Rhodacmea elatior". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 1996: e.T19669A9002012. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T19669A9002012.en .
  5. Cordeiro, J. (2012). "Rhodacmea filosa". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2012: e.T19670A2475285. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T19670A2475285.en .