Erinna (gastropod)

Erinna
Erinna newcombi, a species with a sinistral shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily: Lymnaeoidea
Family: Lymnaeidae
Genus: Erinna
H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855[1]
Type species
Erinna newcombi
H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855

Erinna is a genus of air-breathing, freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails. This genus is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands, United States.

Species

Species within the genus Erinna include:

References

  1. ^ Adams A. (1855) "Descriptions of Two New Genera and several New Species of Mollusca, from the Collection of Hugh Cumming" Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. Part XXIII. 119-124.
  2. ^ http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/servlet/NatureServe?searchName=Erinna+aulacospira accessed 2 November

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