Sibirenauta

Sibirenauta
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Superorder:	Hygrophila
Family:	Physidae
Subfamily:	Aplexinae
Genus:	Sibirenauta Starobogatov & Streletzkaja, 1967 [1]
Diversity [2]
4 species

Sibirenauta is a genus of left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Physidae.

The scientific name Sibirenauta is composed from the word Siberia, where its species live and from the Latin word nauta, that means "sailor". ^[2]

Distribution

Distribution the genus Sibirenauta ranges from Siberia to Canada and the United States of America. ^[2]

Species

Species in the genus Sibirenauta include:

• Sibirenauta depressior (Middendorff, 1851) - type species ^[2]
• Sibirenauta elongata (Say, 1821) ^[2]
• Sibirenauta picta (Krause, 1883) ^[2]
• Sibirenauta sibirica (Westerlund, 1877) ^[2]

References

1. Starobogatov Y. I. & Streletskaja E. A. (1967). Sostav i zoogeograficheskaya kharakteristika presnovodnoi malakofauny vostochnoi Sibiri i severa dal’nego vostoka. Trudy Zool. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR42: 221-268.
2. Taylor D. W. (2003). "Introduction to Physidae (Gastropoda: Hygrophila). Biology, classification, morphology". Revista de Biología Tropical 51(Suppl. 1): 1-299. (1-195, 197-263, 265-287). pages 10-11, 56-71.