Bathanalia
| Bathanalia | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha |
| Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
| Family: | Paludomidae |
| Subfamily: | Hauttecoeuriinae |
| Tribe: | Tiphobiini[1] |
| Genus: | Bathanalia Moore, 1898[2][3] |
| Diversity[4] | |
| 2 species | |
Bathanalia is a genus of tropical freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Paludomidae.[1]
This genus is endemic to the Lake Tanganyika.[4]
Species
Species within the genus Bathanalia include:
- Bathanalia howesi (Moore, 1898) - type species[4]
- Bathanalia straeleni Leloup, 1953[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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.
- ↑ Moore J. E. (1898). Proceedings of the Royal Society 62: 451
- ↑ Moore J. E. (1898). "The mollusks of the Great African lakes. 2. The anatomy of the Typhobias, with a description of a new genus (Batanalia) (sic)". Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 41: 181-204. page 192. Plate 11-14.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.
Further reading
- Moore J. E. (1898). "Descriptions of the genera Bathanalia and Bythoceras, from Lake Tanganyika". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 3 : 92-93.