Belgrandiella
Encyclopedia
Belgrandiella is a genus
of minute freshwater snail
s with a gill and an operculum, aquatic
gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae
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Synonyms: The folloving names are junior synonyms for Alzoniella slovenica
: Belgrandiella alticola, Belgrandiella bojnicensis, Belgrandiella komenskyi, Belgrandiella slovenica.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of minute freshwater snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s with a gill and an operculum, aquatic
Aquatic animal
An aquatic animal is an animal, either vertebrate or invertebrate, which lives in water for most or all of its life. It may breathe air or extract its oxygen from that dissolved in water through specialised organs called gills, or directly through its skin. Natural environments and the animals that...
gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae
Hydrobiidae
Hydrobiidae, common name mud snails, is a large cosmopolitan taxonomic family of very small freshwater snails and brackish water snails that have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the clade Littorinimorpha.- Distribution :...
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Species
The genus Belgrandiella includes the following species:- Belgrandiella austrianaBelgrandiella austrianaBelgrandiella austriana is a species of minute freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to Austria....
- Belgrandiella fuchsiBelgrandiella fuchsiBelgrandiella fuchsi is a species of minute freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to Austria....
- Belgrandiella ganslmayriBelgrandiella ganslmayriBelgrandiella ganslmayri s a species of minute freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to Austria....
- Belgrandiella kusceri (Wagner, 1914) - type speciesType speciesIn biological nomenclature, a type species is both a concept and a practical system which is used in the classification and nomenclature of animals and plants. The value of a "type species" lies in the fact that it makes clear what is meant by a particular genus name. A type species is the species...
- Belgrandiella mimulaBelgrandiella mimulaBelgrandiella mimula is a species of minute freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to Austria....
- Belgrandiella parreyssiBelgrandiella parreyssiBelgrandiella parreyssi is a species of minute freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to Austria where it is found only in one thermal spring at Bad Voeslau, south of vienna. Due to man made changes of the...
- Belgrandiella pelereiBelgrandiella pelereiBelgrandiella pelerei is a species of minute freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to Austria....
- Belgrandiella pyrenaicaBelgrandiella pyrenaicaBelgrandiella pyrenaica is a species of minute freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to France.-References:* Bouchet, P. 1996. . Downloaded on 6 August 2007....
- Belgrandiella styriacaBelgrandiella styriacaBelgrandiella styriaca is a species of minute freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to Austria....
- Belgrandiella wawraiBelgrandiella wawraiBelgrandiella wawrai is a species of minute freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to Austria....
- Belgrandiella intermediaBelgrandiella intermedia†Belgrandiella intermedia was a species of very small freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Hydrobiidae.The International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources has listed the species as extinct since 1996.-Range of distribution:This species was...
Synonyms: The folloving names are junior synonyms for Alzoniella slovenica
Alzoniella slovenica
Alzoniella slovenica is a species of very small or minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae, which are sometimes known as the snouted water snails.- Distribution :...
: Belgrandiella alticola, Belgrandiella bojnicensis, Belgrandiella komenskyi, Belgrandiella slovenica.