Segmentina

Segmentina
Shell of Segmentina nitida
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily: Planorboidea
Family: Planorbidae
Subfamily: Planorbinae
Tribe: Segmentinini
Genus: Segmentina
Fleming, 1818[1]

Segmentina is a genus of small, air-breathing, freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ramshorn snails.

Albrecht et al. (2007)[2] have confirmed its placement in the tribe Segmentinini within subfamily Planorbinae.[2]

Species

Species in this genus include:

References

  1. ^ Fleming (1818). Ency. Brit. (Suppl. to eds. 4-6), 3(1): 309.
  2. ^ a b Albrecht C., Kuhn K. & Streit B. (2007). "A molecular phylogeny of Planorboidea (Gastropoda, Pulmonata): insights from enhanced taxon sampling". Zoologica Scripta 36: 27-39. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00258.x.

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