Stenomelania

Stenomelania
A live but retracted individual of Stenomelania crenulata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
Family:	Thiaridae
Genus:	Stenomelania Fischer, 1885 [1]
Type species
Melania aspiransHinds, 1844
Synonyms [2]
Melania (Stenomelania)P. Fischer, 1885 (original rank) Melanoides (Stenomelania)P. Fischer, 1885

Stenomelania is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Thiarinae of the family Thiaridae known as thiarids. ^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Stenomelania include:

• Stenomelania acutospira (I. Lea, 1850)
• Stenomelania amabilis (G. von dem Busch)
• Stenomelania aspirans (Hinds, 1844) - type species of the genus Stenomelania ^{[1] [3]}
• Stenomelania blatta (I. Lea, 1850)
• Stenomelania boninensis (I. Lea, 1856)
• Stenomelania brenchleyi (Baird, 1873)
• Stenomelania clavus (J.B.P.A. Lamarck, 1822)
• Stenomelania coarctata (J.B.P.A. Lamarck, 1822)
• Stenomelania costellaris (I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851)
• Stenomelania crenulata (Deshayes, 1838) - synonym: Stenomelania rufescens (Martens, 1860)
• Stenomelania denisoniensis (Brot, 1877) ^[4]
• Stenomelania distinguenda (A. Brot)
• † Stenomelania dollfusi (Jodot, 1928)
• Stenomelania erosa (Lesson, 1831)
• Stenomelania graeffei (A. Mousson)
• |Stenomelania iaxa (A. Mousson)
• Stenomelania juncea (I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851)
• Stenomelania lancea (I. Lea, 1850)
• Stenomelania litigiosa (A. Brot, 1877)
• Stenomelania loebbeckii (A. Brot, 1877)
• Stenomelania luctuosa (Hinds, 1844)
• Stenomelania lutosa (A. Gould, 1847)
• Stenomelania macilenta (Menke, 1830)
• Stenomelania mucronata (von dem Busch, 1853)
• Stenomelania persulcata (Mousson, 1869)
• Stenomelania plicaria I. von Born, 1778
• Stenomelania punctata (Lamarck, 1822)
• Stenomelania rustica (Mousson, 1857)
• Stenomelania torulosa (Bruguière, 1789) - synonym: Bulimus torulosus Bruguière, 1789 ^{[5] [6]}
• Stenomelania uniformis Quoy & Gaimard, 1834 ^[7]
• Stenomelania waigiensis (Lesson, 1831)

Synonyms:

• Stenomelania arthurii(Brot, 1870): synonym of Stenomelania persulcata (Mousson, 1869) (junior synonym)
• Stenomelania funiculus(Quoy & Gaimard, 1834): synonym of Stenomelania plicaria(Born, 1778)
• Stenomelania hastula(I. Lea, 1850): synonym of Stenomelania plicaria(Born, 1778)
• Stenomelania houseiLea, 1856 is a synonym of Sulcospira housei (Lea, 1856)
• Stenomelania rufescens(Martens, 1860): synonym of Stenomelania crenulata(Deshayes, 1838)
• Stenomelania semicancellata(von dem Busch, 1844): synonym of Stenomelania torulosa(Bruguière, 1789) (junior subjective synonym)

References

1. (in French) Fischer P., Oehlert P. & Woodward S. P. (1887). "Manuel de conchyliologie et de paléontologie conchyliologique ou histoire naturelle des mollusques vivants et fossiles suivi d'un appendice sur les brachipodes". Avec 23 planches contenant 600 figures et 1138 gravures dans le texte. pp. I-XXIV, pp. 1-1369, Plates I-XXIII, 1 map. Paris. page 701.
2. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Stenomelania P. Fischer, 1885. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818571 on 2022-06-22
3. "Genus taxon summary for Stenomelania". AnimalBase, last modified 26 May 2013, accessed 13 January 2016.
4. Clark S. (2011). "Stenomelania denisoniensis". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T188945A8665967. Downloaded on 10 January 2016.
5. "Species summary for Stenomelania torulosa". AnimalBase, last modified 26 May 2013, accessed 13 January 2016.
6. Bruguière J. G. (1792). Encyclopédie méthodique. Histoire naturelle des vers. Tome premier, Paris, 3 pp. + j-xviij pp. + 757 pp., page 332.
7. Köhler F. & Rintelen T. (2011). "Stenomelania uniformis". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T189354A8720112. Downloaded on 10 January 2016.

External links

• Glaubrecht M., Brinkmann N. & Pöppe J. (2009). Diversity and disparity ‘down under': Systematics, biogeography and reproductive modes of the ‘marsupial' freshwater Thiaridae (Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea) in Australia. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 85(2): 199-275

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