Esperiana

Esperiana
a live Esperiana esperi out of water
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Melanopsidae
Genus: Esperiana
Bourguignat, 1877[1]

Esperiana is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Melanopsidae.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Esperiana include:

References

  1. Bourguignat J. R. (1876). Bull. Soc. Sci. phys. nat. Toulouse 3: 88.
  2. Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., ISBN 3-925919-60-0, page 190-194.
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