Gundlachia (gastropod)
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| Gundlachia | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Hygrophila |
| Superfamily: | Planorboidea |
| Family: | Planorbidae |
| Subfamily: | Bulininae |
| Tribe: | Bulinini[1] |
| Genus: | Gundlachia Pfeiffer, 1849[2] |
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Gundlachia is a genus of minute freshwater snails or limpets, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies.
The generic name is in honor of Cuban naturalist Juan Gundlach (1810-1896).
Anatomy
These animals have a pallial lung, as do all pulmonate snails, but they also have a false gill or "pseudobranch". This serves as a gill as, in their non-tidal habitat, these limpets never reach the surface for air.
Distribution
They have a worldwide distribution.[3]
Species
Species within the genus Gundlachia include:[4][5]
- Gundlachia concentrica (d’Orbigny, 1835)
- Gundlachia lucasi Suter, 1905
- Gundlachia meehiana Stimpson
- Gundlachia moricandi (Orbigny, 1837)
- Gundlachia neozelanica Suter, 1905
- Gundlachia radiata (Guilding, 1828)
- Gundlachia ticaga (Marcus & Marcus, 1962)
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Pfeiffer L. K. G. [1850]. Zeitschr. Malakozool. 1849: 97.
- ↑ Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1.
- ↑ Gundlachia. ITIS. accessed 1 January 2008.
- ↑ Silvana C Thiengo, Aline C Mattos, M Fernanda Boaventura, Márcio S Loureiro, Sonia B Santos, Monica A Fernandez. (August) 2004. Freshwater Snails and Schistosomiasis Mansoni in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: V - Norte Fluminense Mesoregion. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz, Vol. 99, Suppl. 1, pp. 99-103
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