Marisa (gastropod)

Marisa
Lateral view of a shell of Marisa cornuarietis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

informal group Architaenioglossa

Superfamily: Ampullarioidea
Family: Ampullariidae
Genus: Marisa
J. E. Gray, 1824[1]
Species

2 [2]

Marisa is a genus of freshwater snails in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.

Species

There are two species:[2]

Phylogeny

Based on analysis of mitochondrial 12S ribosomal RNA, 16S ribosomal RNA, and the cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) gene, M. cornuarietis is a sister clade to M. planogyra and Asolene spixii, indicating that genus Marisa is not monophyletic.[2]

References

  1. Gray J. E. (1824). Zoological notices. The Philosophical Magazine and Journal 63: 274-277. page 276.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Rawlings, T. A., et al. (2007). The identity, distribution, and impacts on non-native apple snails in the continental United States. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7: 97 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-97.

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