Pyrgula annulata

Pyrgula annulata
Apertural view of two shells of Pyrgula annulata.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Subfamily: Pyrgulinae
Genus: Pyrgula
Species: P. annulata
Binomial name
Pyrgula annulata
(Linnaeus, 1758)[1]
Synonyms

Turbo annulatus Linnaeus, 1758
Melania helvetica Michelin, 1831
Pyrgula helvetica (Michelin, 1831)

Pyrgula annulata is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.

Pyrgula annulata is the type species of the genus Pyrgula.

Distribution

This species occurs in Switzerland, Italy, Croatia, and Albania.

References

  1. ↑ Linnaeus C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. pp. [1-4], 1-824. Holmiae. (Salvius).
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pyrgula annulata.


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 8/17/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.