Potamopyrgus
Potamopyrgus | |
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Potamopyrgus antipodarum | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Truncatelloidea |
Family: | Tateidae |
Genus: | Potamopyrgus Stimpson, 1865 |
Species | |
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Potamopyrgus is a genus of minute freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Tateidae. [1]
Distribution
This genus is endemic to New Zealand and south eastern Australia.
However, one species within this genus, P. antipodarum, has been accidentally introduced in many countries worldwide, especially in Europe and North America, and has become a problematic invasive species.
Species
Species within the genus Potamopyrgus include:
- Potamopyrgus alexenkoae Anistratenko in Anistratenko & Stadnichenko, 1995
- Potamopyrgus antipodarum J. E. Gray, 1843 - (syn. Potamopyrgus jenkinsi)
- Potamopyrgus corolla (Gould) (Type species)
- Potamopyrgus cresswelli Climo, F. M., 1974 - (syn. Potamopyrgus gardneri, Potamopyrgus manneringi)
- Potamopyrgus dawbini Powell, A. W. B., 1955
- Potamopyrgus estuarinus (Winterbourn, 1971)
- Potamopyrgus melvilli (Hedley, C., 1916)
- Potamopyrgus oscitans Iredale, 1944
- Potamopyrgus polistchuki Anistratenko, 1991
- Potamopyrgus pupoides Hutton, 1882
- Potamopyrgus subterraneus Suter, 1905
- Potamopyrgus troglodytes (Climo, F. M., 1974)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Potamopyrgus amazonicus Haas, 1949: synonym of Dyris amazonicus (Haas, 1949)
- Potamopyrgus brevior Ancey, 1905: synonym of Fluviopupa brevior (Ancey, 1905)
- Potamopyrgus jenkinsi (E. A. Smith, 1889): synonym of [[Potamopyrgus antipodarum]] (J.E. Gray, 1843)
- Potamopyrgus ruppiae Hedley, 1912: synonym of Ascorhis victoriae (Tenison-Woods, 1878)
References
- ↑ Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2014). Potamopyrgus Stimpson, 1865. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=147122 on 2014-07-29
- Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp