Pyrgula

Pyrgula
Photo of apertural view of shells of Pyrgula annulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Subfamily: Pyrgulinae
Genus: Pyrgula
Cristofori & Jan, 1832[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Pyrgidium Toumouer. 1869
  • Pirgula Brusina, 1881
  • Pyrgiscus Herrmannsen, 1848

Pyrgula is a genus of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.[3]

Pyrgula is the type genus of the subfamily Pyrgulinae.[3] Pyrgula annulata is the type species of the genus Pyrgula.

Species

Species within the genus Pyrgula include:

References

  1. ^ Cristofori & Jan (1832). Cat. Mus. (Mantissa Test.), 4.
  2. ^ Kabat A. R. & Hershler R. (1993). "The prosobranch snail family Hydrobiidae (Gastropoda: Rissooidea): review of classification and supraspecific taxa". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 547: 1-94. PDF.
  3. ^ a b 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. 
  4. ^ a b c d e Pyrgula. Fauna Europaea, last update 27 January 2011, accessed 11 June 2011.

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