Bellamya (gastropod)
Bellamya is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Viviparidae.
Bellamya is the type genus of the subfamily Bellamyinae.[2]
Distribution
Indigenous distribution of Bellamya includes Africa and Asia.[3]
Species
Species within the genus Bellamya include:
- Bellamya bengalensis (Lamarck, 1822)[3]
- Bellamya capillata (Frauenfeld, 1865)[3]
- Bellamya chinensis (Reeve 1863) - Chinese mystery snail, synonym: Cipangopaludina chinensis (Gray, 1834)[4]
- Bellamya constricta (Martens, 1889)[3]
- Bellamya contracta (Haas, 1934)[3]
- Bellamya costulata (Martens, 1892)[3]
- Bellamya crassa (Benson, 1836)[5]
- Bellamya crassispiralis Annandale, 1921[6]
- Bellamya crawshayi (Smith, 1893)[3]
- Bellamya dissimilis (Mueller, 1774)[7]
- Bellamya ecclesi (Crowley & Pain, 1964)[3]
- Bellamya heudei guangdungensis (Kobelt, 1906)[8]
- Bellamya jeffreysi (Frauenfeld, 1865)[3]
- Bellamya jucunda (Smith, 1892)[3]
- Bellamya leopoldvillensis (Putzeys, 1898)[3]
- Bellamya liberiana (Schepman, 1888)[3]
- Bellamya micron Annandale, 1921[9]
- Bellamya monardi (Haas, 1934)[3]
- Bellamya mweruensis (Smith, 1893)[3]
- Bellamya pagodiformis (Smith, 1893)[3]
- Bellamya phthinotropis (Martens, 1892)[3]
- Bellamya robertsoni (Frauenfeld, 1865)[3]
- Bellamya rubicunda (Martens, 1879)[3]
- Bellamya trochlearis (Martens, 1892)[3]
- Bellamya unicolor (Olivier, 1804) - Bellamya duponti De Rochebrune, 1882 is the type species and it is probably synonym of Bellamya unicolor[3]
References
- ^ Jousseaume (1886). Bull. Soc. zool. France 11: 478.
- ^ 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 3925919724. ISSN 0076-2997. http://www.archive.org/details/malacologia47122005inst.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0 7484 0026 5.
- ^ Solomon C. T., Olden J. D., Johnson P. T. J., Dillon R. T. & Vander Zanden M. J. (2010). "Distribution and community-level effects of the Chinese mystery snail (Bellamya chinensis) in northern Wisconsin lakes". Biological Invasions 12: 1591-1605. PDF.
- ^ Budha P. B. & Daniel B. A. (2010). Bellamya crassa. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 26 August 2011.
- ^ Budha P. B. & Madhyastha A. (2010). Bellamya crassispiralis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 26 August 2011.
- ^ Budha P. B., Dutta J. & Daniel B. A. (2010). Bellamya dissimilis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 26 August 2011.
- ^ Kear B. P., Hamilton-Bruce R. J., Smith B. J. & Gowlett-Holmes K. L. (2003). "Reassessment of Australia's oldest freshwater snail, Viviparus (?) albascopularis Etheridge, 1902 (Mollusca : Gastropoda : Viviparidae), from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian, Wallumbilla Formation) of White Cliffs, New South Wales". Molluscan Research 23(2): 149-158. doi:10.1071/MR03003, PDF.
- ^ Budha P. B. & Daniel B. A. (2010). Bellamya micron. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 26 August 2011.
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