Tanganyicia

Tanganyicia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Paludomidae
Subfamily: Hauttecoeuriinae
Tribe: Hauttecoeuriini
Genus: Tanganyicia
Crosse, 1881[1]
Diversity
2 species
Synonyms[3]

Hauttecoeuria Bourguignat, 1885[2]

Tanganyicia is a genus of tropical freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Paludomidae.[4]

It was prior to 2002 placed within Thiaridae.

Species

Brown (1994)[5] has considered Tanganyicia rufofilosa as the only, but variable, species in the genus Tanganyicia.[5] Later, in 1999, there has been described another species.

It contains the following species:

References

  1. ^ Crosse (1881). J. Conchyliol. 29: 123.
  2. ^ 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, 46-47.
  3. ^ 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. ^ Strong E. E. & Glaubrecht M. (2002). "Evidence for convergent evolution of brooding in a unique gastropod from Lake Tanganyika: anatomy and affinity of Tanganyicia rufofilosa (Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea, Paludomidae)". Zoologica Scripta 31(2): 167-184. doi:10.1046/j.1463-6409.2002.00072.x.
  5. ^ a b c Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0 7484 0026 5.
  6. ^ Nicayenzi F. (2004). Tanganyicia michelae. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 10 May 2011.