Thiara (gastropod)

Thiara

Oblique apertural view of a shell of Thiara winteri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
Family:	Thiaridae
Genus:	Thiara Röding, 1798
Synonyms
Amarula (Linnaeus, 1758) Thiara Bolten, 1798 Melania Lamarck, 1799 Melacantha Swainson, 1840

Thiara is a genus of freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Thiaridae.^[1]

Species

Species with accepted names within the genus Thiara include:

According to the website Shell-bearing Mollusca, the following species are included within the genus Thiara ^[3]

Thiara amarula C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Africa, Australia, India
Thiara baldwini C. F. Ancey, 1899 - Hawaiian Islands
Thiara balonnensis T. A. Conrad, 1850 - Australia
Thiara cancellata P. F. Röding, 1798 - Indo-Pacific
Thiara indefinita I. & H. C. Lea, 1851 - Hawaiian Islands
Thiara kauaiensis W. H. Pease, 1870 - Hawaiian Islands
Thiara lineata Gray, 1828 - India
Thiara lirata C. T. Menke, 1843 - Australia
Thiara paludomoidea Nevill, 1884 - India
Thiara prashadi Ray, 1947 - India
Thiara punctata J. B. Lamarck, 1822 - India
Thiara rudis I. Lea, 1850 - India
Thiara scabra O. F. Müller, 1774 - Indo-Pacific
- Thiara scabra lyriformis I. Lea, 1850 - Japan
- Thiara scabra pagoda I. Lea, 1850 - Japan
- Thiara scabra subplicatula Smith, 1878 - Japan
Thiara speciosa A. Adams, 1854
Thiara torulosa Bruguière, 1789 I- ndia
Thiara verrauiana I. Lea, 1856 - Hawaiian Islands
Thiara winteri von Dem Busch, 1842 - Indo-Pacific : spiky trumpet snail

^ WoRMS (2009). Thiara. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206444 on 2010-05-18
^ WoRMS (2009). Thiara rodericensis (Smith, 1876). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=214677 on 2010-05-18
^ Shell-bearing Mollusca : Thiara