| Fukuia | |
|---|---|
| A live individual of Fukuia multistriata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Pomatiopsidae |
| Subfamily: | Pomatiopsinae |
| Genus: | Fukuia Abbott & Hunter, 1949[1] |
| Diversity | |
| 3 species and "Fukuia" ooyagii[2] | |
Fukuia is a genus of amphibious freshwater snails and land snails with an operculum, gastropod mollusks in the family Pomatiopsidae.
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The genus Fukuia is endemic to Honshu, Japan.[2] These snails occur especially in the northern and western part of Japan, on the coast of the Sea of Japan.[2] There is a unique climate in the Sea of Japan with high precipitation due to winter snowfall in the area of distribution of Fukuia.[2] These snails have been described as a "Japan Sea element".[2]
Species within the genus Fukuia include:
The speciation of genus Fukuia likely started around 7.2 millions years ago in the Late Miocene.[2]
Unassigned to genus:
Fukuia kurodai and Fukuia multistriata live amphibiously around rocky walls of steep valleys covered with ferns and bryophytes, and moistened by dripping water.[2] They live only along the mountain streamlets where such habitats are typically found, and often occur with pleurocerid freshwater snails.[2]
Fukuia integra lives as a terrestrial snail in inland forests.[2]
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