Stanleya neritinoides

Stanleya neritinoides
Shell of Stanleya neritinoides (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Paludomidae
Genus:	Stanleya Bourguignat, 1885 [2]
Species:	S. neritinoides
Binomial name
Stanleya neritinoides (E. A. Smith, 1880) [3]
Synonyms [3]
Lithoglyphus neritinoidesSmith, 1880 Rumella giraudiBourguignat, 1885(junior synonym) Rumella milneedwardsianaBourguignat, 1885 (junior synonym) Stanleya giraudiBourguignat, 1885 (junior synonym) Stanleya smithianaBourguignat, 1885 (junior synonym)

Stanleya neritinoides is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Paludomidae. ^[1]

Stanleya neritinoides is probably the only species in the genus Stanleya. ^[4] The genus Stanleya may be closely related to the genus Tanganyicia . ^[1]

This species was listed as Endangered in the 2006 IUCN Red List . ^[1]

Distribution

This species is found in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia. ^[1]

The type locality is Lake Tanganyika. ^[3]

Description

The width of the shell is 8.0 millimetres (0.31 in). ^[4] The height of the shell is 9.8 millimetres (0.39 in). ^[4]

References

1. Lange, C. (2010). "Stanleya neritinoides". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2010: e.T20713A9218753. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T20713A9218753.en . Retrieved 18 November 2021.
2. (in French) Bourguignat J. R. (1885). Notice prodromique sur les mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles recueillis par M. Victor Giraud dans la region méridionale du lac Tanganika. page 11, 86-87.
3. Smith E. A. (1880). "Diagnoses of new shells from Lake Tanganyika and East Africa". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5)6: 425-430. page 426.
4. Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN   0-7484-0026-5.

External links

• Smith E. A. (1881). "On a collection of shells from lakes Tanganyika and Nyassa and other localities in East Africa". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1881: 276-300. Plate 33, figure 19.
• Strong E. E. & Glaubrecht M. (2003). "Anatomy and systematic affinity of Stanleya neritinoides (Smith, 1880), an enigmatic member of the thalassoid gastropod species flock in Lake Tanganyika, East Africa (Cerithioidea, Paludomidae)". Acta Zoologica 84(4): 249–265. doi : 10.1046/j.1463-6395.2003.00145.x.
• Bourguignat, J.-R. (1885). Notice prodromique sur les mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles recueillis par M. Victor Giraud dans la région méridionale du lac Tanganyika. 110 pp. Paris