Stenothyridae

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Stenothyridae
Stenothyra hybocystoides shell.png
A drawing of an apertural view of Stenothyra hybocystoides , with operculum in place
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Stenothyridae
Tryon, 1866 [1]
Diversity [2]
About 60 freshwater species

Stenothyridae is a family of small freshwater snails, snails with gills and an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Truncatelloidea. [3]

Contents

This family has no subfamilies. [3]

Distribution

There are known about 60 freshwater species of Stenothyridae in the Palearctic (6 species), Oriental (about 60 species) and Australasian region (about 5 species) [2] and some marine. There are 19 endemic species of Stenothyridae in the Lower Mekong River flowing through Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. [2]

Description

American malacologist George Washington Tryon firstly defined this taxon as Stenothyrinæ in 1866. [1] Tryon's diagnosis reads as follows: [1]

Stenothyrinæ. Shell turbinate. Operculum subspiral, calcareous. Distribution Indian. Stenothyra , Gabbia .

Currently the genus Gabbia is classified within the family Bithyniidae.

Genera

Genera within the family Stenothyridae include:

Ecology

The habitat of Stenothyridae include rivers, streams and estuaries. [2] Stenothyridae invaded freshwater habitats from marine ones in at least one independent lineage. [2] Some species of Stenothyridae are euryhaline and/or marine. [2] Probably there are some amphidromous (migrate from freshwater to the sea) species of Stenothyridae. [2]

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference [1]

  1. 1 2 3 4 Tryon G. W. (1866). "[Book review of] Researches upon the Hydrobiinae and allied forms by Dr. Wm. Stimpson, 8 vol. Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, August 1865. 58 pp". American Journal of Conchology 2(2): 152-158. page 155.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Strong E. E., Gargominy O., Ponder W. F. & Bouchet P. (2008). "Global Diversity of Gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in Freshwater". Hydrobiologia 595: 149-166. hdl : 10088/7390 doi : 10.1007/s10750-007-9012-6.
  3. 1 2 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. ↑ Glöer P. & Pešić V. (2009). "New freshwater gastropod species of the Iran (Gastropoda: Stenothyridae, Bithyniidae, Hydrobiidae)". Mollusca27(1): 33-39.
  5. ↑ "Stenothyridae". The Taxonomicon, last update 21 March 2011, accessed 23 July 2011.
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