Sulcospira

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Sulcospira
Sulcospira housei shell.png
Apertural view of a shell of Sulcospira housei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:
Cerithioidea
Family:
Pachychilidae
Genus:
Sulcospira

Troschel, 1858 [1]
Synonyms [2]

Adamietta Brandt, 1974

Sulcospira is a genus of freshwater snails which have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pachychilidae.

Contents

Distribution

The distribution of this genus includes: Malaysia, China, Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam. [2]

Species

Apertural view of another shell of Sulcospira schmidti Sulcospira schmidti shell.png
Apertural view of another shell of Sulcospira schmidti

Species within the genus Sulcospira include:

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<i>Sulcospira housei</i> Species of gastropod

Sulcospira housei is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae.

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References

  1. ↑ (in German) Troschel F. H. (1858) (in 1856–1863). Das Gebiss der Schnecken zur Begründung einer Natürlichen Classification. Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin, 252 pp., page 117.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Köhler F. & Dames C. (2009). "Phylogeny and systematics of the Pachychilidae of mainland Southeast Asia – novel insights from morphology and mitochondrial DNA (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157: 679-699. doi : 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00541.x.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Köhler F., Holford M., Do V. T. & Ho T. H. (2009). "Exploring a largely unknown fauna: On the diversity of pachychilid freshwater gastropods in Vietnam (Caenogastropoda: Cerithioidea)". Molluscan Research 29(3): 121-146.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Marwoto R. M. & Isnaningsih N. R. (2012). "The freshwater snail genus Sulcospira Troschel, 1857 from Java, with description of a new species from Tasikmalaya, West Java, Indonesia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pachychilidae)". The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 60(1): 1–10. PDF.


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