Glyptophysa

Glyptophysa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily: Planorboidea
Family: Planorbidae
Subfamily: Bulininae[1]
sensu Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005
or
"B-clade" sensu Albrecht et al. (2007)[2]
Genus: Glyptophysa
Crosse, 1872[3]

Glyptophysa is a genus of small sinistral (left-handed) air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae.

Species

Species in this genus include:

Ecology

Glyptophysa snails are grazers-scrapers.[5]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Walker J. C. (1988). "Classification of Australian buliniform planorbids (Mollusca: Pulmonata)". Records of the Australian Museum 40: 61-89. PDF. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.40.1988.151
  2. Albrecht C., Kuhn K. & Streit B. (2007). "A molecular phylogeny of Planorboidea (Gastropoda, Pulmonata): insights from enhanced taxon sampling". Zoologica Scripta 36: 27-39.doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00258.x.
  3. Crosse J. C. H. (1872). J. Conchyliol. 20: 151.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 3 July 2012.
  5. Wahizatul A. A. & Jennings J. T. (2011). "Impact of Exotic Willow Roots (Salix spp.) as Habitat for Aquatic Invertebrate Communities in South Australian Stream". Asian Journal of Biological Sciences 4(5): 428-444. doi:10.3923/ajbs.2011.428.444.