Phreatodrobia
| Phreatodrobia | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Lithoglyphidae |
| Genus: | Phreatodrobia Hershler & Longley, 1986[1] |
| Diversity[1][2] | |
| 8 species | |
Phreatodrobia is a genus of very small or minute freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Lithoglyphidae.[3]
The generic name Phreatodrobia is derived from the Greek word "phreatos" which means ground water, as in phreatic,[1] and from the suffix -drobia based on family name Hydrobiidae (where it was originally classified), which means "living in water".
Species
Species within the genus Phreatodrobia include:
- Phreatodrobia conica Hershler & Longley, 1986[1]
- Phreatodrobia coronae Hershler, 1987[2]
- Phreatodrobia imitata Hershler & Longley, 1986[1] - mimic cavesnail
- Phreatodrobia micra (Pilsbry & Ferriss, 1906) - type species[1]
- Phreatodrobia nugax (Pilsbry & Ferriss, 1906)[1]
- Phreatodrobia nugax inclinata Hershler & Longley, 1986[1]
- Phreatodrobia plana Hershler & Longley, 1986[1]
- Phreatodrobia punctata Hershler & Longley, 1986[1]
- Phreatodrobia rotunda Hershler & Longley, 1986[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Hershler R. & Longley G. (1986). "Phreatic hydrobiids (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) from the Edwards (Balcones Fault Zone) Aquifer region, south-central Texas". Malacologia 27(1): 127-172. page 132.
- 1 2 Hershler & Longley (1987). "Phreatodrobia coronae, a New Species of Cave Snail from Southwestern Texas". The Nautilus 101(3): 133-139.
- ↑ Hershler R. & Thompson F. G. (1990). "Antrorbis breweri, a new genus and species of hydrobiid cavesnail (Gastropoda) from Coosa River Basin, northeastern Alabama". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 103(l): 197-204. PDF.
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