Sulcospira

Sulcospira
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.

Distribution

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

Species

Apertural view of another shell of Sulcospira schmidti

Species within the genus Sulcospira include:

References

  1. (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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