Fluminicola nuttallianus

Fluminicola nuttallianus
possibly extinct[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Lithoglyphidae
Subfamily: Lithoglyphinae
Genus: Fluminicola
Species: F. nuttallianus
Binomial name
Fluminicola nuttallianus
(I. Lea, 1838)[2]
Synonyms[3]
  • Paludina nuttalliana Lea, 1838
  • Fluminicola nuttalliana

Fluminicola nuttallianus, common name dusky pebblesnail, is a possibly extinct[1] species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Lithoglyphidae.[4]

Fluminicola nuttallianus is the type species of the genus Fluminicola.[3]

Distribution

This species occurs (or occurred) in Oregon, USA.[1]

Description

Fluminicola nuttallianus has several (not exactly counted) rows of teeth on its radula.[5] Each row has 2-3 central basocones, 4-5 central octocones, 7-8 lateral teeth, ca. 16 inner marginal teeth and 12-13 outer marginal teeth.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Fluminicola nuttallianus. NatureServe Explorer, accessed 28 May 2011.
  2. ↑ Lea I. (1838). "Description of New Freshwater and Land Shells". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 6: 1-154. page 101, plate XXIII, figure 89.
  3. 1 2 Hershler R. & Frest T. J. (1996). "A review of the North American freshwater snail genus Fluminicola (Hydrobiidae)". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 583: 1-41. PDF.
  4. ↑ Bouchet P.; Rocroi J.-P.; Frýda J.; Hausdorf B.; Ponder W.; Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  5. 1 2 Thompson F. G. (1984). "North American freshwater snail genera of the hydrobiid subfamily Lithoglyphinae". Malacologia 25(1): 109-141.


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