Littoridina

Littoridina
Anatomy of the anterior end of the soft parts of an individual of Littoridina gaudichaudii. "Pen" marks the penis.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Littoridina
Souleyet, 1852[1]

Littoridina is a genus of small freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae.

Species

Species within the genus Littoridina include:[2]

References

  1. (French) Souleyet L. F. A. (1852). Voyage autour du Monde exécuté pendant les années 1836 et 1837 sur la corvette La Bonite, zoologie, II. 563.
  2. Lima L. C. & de Souza C. P. (1990). "Ocorrência de um hidrobióide (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda) imos municípios de Pedro Leopoldo e Lagoa Santa, Mg, Brasil". Rev. Inst. Med. trop. São Paulo 32(2): 86-90. PDF


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