Cincinnatia

Cincinnatia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Cincinnatia
Pilsbry, 1891[1]

Cincinnatia is a genus of very small freshwater snails that have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae, the mud snails.

Species

Τhe genus Cincinnatia is currently monospecific, containing the single species Cincinnatia integra (Say, 1821).[2][3]

Species brought into synonymy

In 2002, 15 out of the then 16 species of Cincinnatia were transferred to the genera Marstonia and Floridobia:[2]

References

  1. Pilsbry H. A. (1891). Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 1891: 327.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Thompson F. G. & Hershler R. (2002). "Two genera of North American freshwater snails: Marstonia Baker, 1926, resurrected to generic status, and Floridobia, new genus (Prosobranchia: Hydrobiidae: Nymphophilinae)". The Veliger 45 (3): 269–271. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  3. Hershler, R., Liu, H.-P. & Thompson, F. G. (2003). "Phylogenetic relationships of North American nymphophiline gastropods based on mitochondrial DNA sequences" (PDF). Zoologica Scripta (The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters) 32 (4): 357–366. doi:10.1046/j.1463-6409.2003.00115.x. Retrieved 5 August 2014.