Fluminicola nuttallianus
| Fluminicola nuttallianus | |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | |
| possibly extinct[1] | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Lithoglyphidae |
| Subfamily: | Lithoglyphinae |
| Genus: | Fluminicola |
| Species: | F. nuttallianus |
| Binomial name | |
| Fluminicola nuttallianus (I. Lea, 1838)[2] | |
| Synonyms[3] | |
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Fluminicola nuttallianus, common name dusky pebblesnail, is a possibly extinct[1] species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Lithoglyphidae.[4]
Fluminicola nuttallianus is the type species of the genus Fluminicola.[3]
Distribution
This species occurs (or occurred) in Oregon, USA.[1]
Description
Fluminicola nuttallianus has several (not exactly counted) rows of teeth on its radula.[5] Each row has 2-3 central basocones, 4-5 central octocones, 7-8 lateral teeth, ca. 16 inner marginal teeth and 12-13 outer marginal teeth.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Fluminicola nuttallianus. NatureServe Explorer, accessed 28 May 2011.
- ↑ Lea I. (1838). "Description of New Freshwater and Land Shells". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 6: 1-154. page 101, plate XXIII, figure 89.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Hershler R. & Frest T. J. (1996). "A review of the North American freshwater snail genus Fluminicola (Hydrobiidae)". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 583: 1-41. PDF.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Thompson F. G. (1984). "North American freshwater snail genera of the hydrobiid subfamily Lithoglyphinae". Malacologia 25(1): 109-141.