Esperiana esperi

Esperiana esperi
a live Esperiana esperi out of water
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Melanopsidae
Genus: Esperiana
Species: E. esperi
Binomial name
Esperiana esperi
(Férussac , 1823)[2]
Synonyms

Fagotia esperi (A. Férussac, 1823)

Esperiana esperi is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Melanopsidae.[3]

Distribution

Distribution of this species is Pontic.[4]

This species is found in Austria, Belarus, Hungary, Moldova, Slovakia,[5] and Ukraine.[6]

Description

Shell of Esperiana esperi

References

  1. ↑ Feher Z. (2011). "Fagotia esperi". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 05 August 2014.
  2. ↑ (French) Férussac, A. E. J. P. J. F. d'Audebard de (1823). "Monographie des espèces vivantes et fossiles du genre mélanopside, Melanopsis, et observations géologiques à leur sujet". Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris 1: 132-164, Plate VII-VIII.
  3. ↑ (German) Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., ISBN 3-925919-60-0, page 190-194.
  4. ↑ (Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
  5. ↑ (Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.
  6. ↑ Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). "Fagotia esperi". 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.

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