Bridouxia

Bridouxia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Paludomidae
Subfamily: Hauttecoeuriinae
Tribe: Spekiini[1][2]
Genus: Bridouxia
Bourguignat, 1885[3]
Diversity
6 species[1]
Synonyms[1]

Bridouxia is a genus of small[1] tropical freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Paludomidae.

Species of this genus are endemic to the Lake Tanganyika.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Bridouxia include:

Ecology

They live on hard substrata in shallow water on shores of Lake Tanganyika.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0 7484 0026 5.
  2. ^ 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. 
  3. ^ a b c Bourguignat J. R. (1885). Notice prodromique sur les mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles recueillis par M. Victor Giraud dans la region méridionale du lac Tanganika page 10-11, 29.
  4. ^ Bourguignat J. R. (1888). Icon. Malac. Moll. Fluv. Tanganika, 39, 40.
  5. ^ Ancey C. F. (1894). Bull. Soc. zool. France 19: 29.
  6. ^ Lange C. N. & Nicayenzi F. (2004). Bridouxia giraudi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
  7. ^ Ngereza C. & Lange C. N. (2004). Bridouxia leucoraphe. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
  8. ^ Nicayenzi F., Ngereza C. & Lange C. N. (2004). Bridouxia ponsonbyi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
  9. ^ Nicayenzi F., Ngereza C. & Lange C. N. (2004). Bridouxia praeclara. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
  10. ^ Ngereza C., Nicayenzi F. & Lange C. N. (2004). Bridouxia rotundata. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
  11. ^ Lange C. N. (2004). Bridouxia smithiana. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.