Cleopatra (gastropod)
Cleopatra is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Paludomidae within the subfamily Cleopatrinae.
Cleopatra is the type genus of the subfamily Cleopatrinae.[3]
The diploid chromosome number of Cleopatra bulimoides is 2n=28.[4]
Distribution
The distribution of the species within this genus includes Egypt, ...
Species
The genus Cleopatra includes the following species:
- Cleopatra africana (Martens, 1878)[2]
- Cleopatra athiensis Verdcourt, 1957[2]
- Cleopatra broecki Putzeys, 1899 - synonym: Potadomoides broecki (Putzeys, 1899)[5]
- Cleopatra bulimoides (Olivier, 1804) - type species[2]
- Cleopatra colbeaui (Craven, 1880)[2]
- Cleopatra cridlandi Mandahl-Barth, 1954[2]
- Cleopatra elata Dautzenberg & Germain, 1914[2]
- Cleopatra exarata (Martens, 1878)[2]
- Cleopatra ferruginea (I. & H. C. Lea, 1850)[2]
- Cleopatra grandidieri (Crosse & Fischer, 1872)[2]
- Cleopatra guillemei Bourguignat, 1885[2]
- Cleopatra hemmingi Verdcourt, 1956[2]
- Cleopatra johnstoni Smith, 1893[2]
- Cleopatra langi Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927[2]
- Cleopatra madagascariensis (Crosse & Fischer, 1872)[2]
- Cleopatra mweruensis Smith, 1893[2]
- Cleopatra nsendweensis Dupuis & Putzeys, 1902[2]
- Cleopatra obscura Mandahl-Barth, 1968[2]
- Cleopatra pilula Mandahl-Barth, 1967[2]
- Cleopatra rugosa Connolly, 1925[2]
- Cleopatra smithi Ancey, 1906[2]
Ecology
The habitat of species in this genus includes slow-running freshwater streams.[4]
Parasites of Cleopatra include:
- Serves as an intermediate host for Prohemistomum vivax.
References
- ^ Troschel (1857). Gebiss Schneck. 1: 100.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0 7484 0026 5.
- ^ 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 Amany A. Tohamy & Shaimaa M. Mohamed (2006). "Chromosomal studies on two Egyptian freshwater snails, Cleopatra and Bithynia (Mollusca-Prosobranchiata)". Arab J. Biotech. 9(1): 17-26. PDF.
- ^ Glaubrecht M. (2010). "The enigmatic Cleopatra broecki Putzeys, 1899 of the Congo River system in Africa – re-transfer from Potadomoides Leloup, 1953 (Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea, Paludomidae)". Zoosystematics and Evolution 86(2): 283-293. doi:10.1002/zoos.201000011.
Further reading
- Yasseen A. E. (1994). "Chromosomal studies of freshwater snail Cleopatra bulimoides common in upper Egypt". Cytologia 59: 317-322.