Gundlachia

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Gundlachia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Subclass: Orthogastropoda Superorder: Heterobranchia Order: Pulmonata Suborder: Basommatophora Family: Ancylidae Genus: Gundlachia Pfeiffer, 1849
Species
See text.

(Note: Gundlachia is also the name of a genus of shrubs which live in the Caribbean islands.)

Gundlachia is a genus of minute freshwater snails or limpets, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ancylidae, the river limpets. They have a world-wide distribution.

These animals have a pallial lung, as do all pulmonate snails, but they also have a false gill or "pseudobranch". This serves as a gill as, in their non-tidal habitat, these limpets never reach the surface for air.

[edit] Species within the genus Gundlachia

• Gundlachia concentrica (d’Orbigny, 1835)
• Gundlachia lucasi Suter, 1905
• Gundlachia meehiana Stimpson
• Gundlachia moricandi (Orbigny, 1837)
• Gundlachia neozelanica Suter, 1905
• Gundlachia ticaga (Marcus & Marcus, 1962)

[edit] References

• Ozius (TSN 660322). Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
• Scielo
• Bioline