Sulcospira

Sulcospira
Apertural view of a shell of Sulcospira housei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pachychilidae
Genus: Sulcospira
Troschel, 1858
Synonyms[1]

Adamietta Brandt, 1974

Sulcospira is a genus of freshwater snails which have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pachychilidae.

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Distribution

The distribution of this genus includes: Malaysia, China, Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Sulcospira include:

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Köhler F. & Dames C. (2009). "Phylogeny and systematics of the Pachychilidae of mainland Southeast Asia – novel insights from morphology and mitochondrial DNA (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157: 679-699. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00541.x.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Köhler F., Holford M., Do V. T. & Ho T. H. (2009). "Exploring a largely unknown fauna: On the diversity of pachychilid freshwater gastropods in Vietnam (Caenogastropoda: Cerithioidea)". Molluscan Research 29(3): 121-146.

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