Hydrobia acuta neglecta

Hydrobia acuta neglecta

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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Hydrobia
Species: Hydrobia acuta
Trinomial name
Hydrobia acuta neglecta
Muus, 1963[1]
Synonyms

Hydrobia neglecta Muus, 1963

Hydrobia acuta neglecta is an European subspecies of small brackish water snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs on the coasts of the North Sea, in countries and islands including:

Status

The status of this taxon is uncertain.Hydrobia neglecta is treated as a full species in Fauna Europaea[3] but in 1995 it had been suggested that that H. neglecta is a synonym of the Mediterranean Hydrobia acuta (Draparnaud).[4] Then a neglecta colony in northern France was shown to be acuta.[5] In (2000) a molecular study concluded that north-west European populations were not specifically distinct from the Mediterranean Hydrobia acuta and designated them subspecies neglecta Muus.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Muus B. J. (1963). "Some Danish Hydrobiidae with the description of a new species, Hydrobia neglecta". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 35(2): 131-138.
  2. ↑ Gofas, S. (2010). Hydrobia acuta neglecta Muus, 1963. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=465551 on 2010-05-05
  3. ↑ Bank, R., von Proschwitz, T. and Falkner, G. 2006.Unpublished manuscript of the mollusca section of the Fauna Europea web-site (http://www.faunaeur.org).
  4. ↑ Giusti, F., Manganelli, G. & Schembri, P. J. (1995) The non-marine molluscs of the Maltese Islands. Monografie XV, Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino
  5. ↑ Hoeksema, D. F. (1998) Note on the occurrence of Hydrobia acuta (Draparnaud, 1805) (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia: Hydrobiidae) in western Europe, with special reference to a record from S. Brittany, France. Basteria 61: 101-113
  6. ↑ Wilke, T., Rolán, E. & Davis, G. M. (2000) The mudsnail Genus Hydrobia s.s. in the northern Atlantic and western Mediterranean: a phylogenetic analysis. Marine Biology. 137: 827-833.

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