Benedictia
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Benedictia is a genus
of freshwater snail
s with an operculum
, aquatic
gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family
Lithoglyphidae
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Benedictia is the type genus
of the subfamily Benedictiinae.
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 freshwater snail
Freshwater snail
A freshwater snail is one kind of freshwater mollusc, the other kind being freshwater clams and mussels, i.e. freshwater bivalves. Specifically a freshwater snail is a gastropod that lives in a watery non-marine habitat. The majority of freshwater gastropods have a shell, with very few exceptions....
s with an operculum
Operculum (gastropod)
The operculum, meaning little lid, is a corneous or calcareous anatomical structure which exists in many groups of sea snails and freshwater snails, and also in a few groups of land snails...
, 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 molluscs or micromolluscs in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Lithoglyphidae
Lithoglyphidae
Lithoglyphidae is a family of small freshwater snails with gills and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks.This family is in the superfamily Rissooidea and in the clade Littorinimorpha .- Taxonomy :Taylor , Ponder & Warén and Kabat & Hershler considered this taxon as a subfamily...
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Benedictia is the type genus
Type genus
In biological classification, a type genus is a representative genus, as with regard to a biological family. The term and concept is used much more often and much more formally in zoology than it is in botany, and the definition is dependent on the nomenclatural Code that applies:* In zoological...
of the subfamily Benedictiinae.
Species
Species within the genus Benedictia include:- Benedictia baicalensis (Gerstfeldt, 1859)
- Benedictia distinguenda Lindholm, 1924
- Benedictia distinguenda lamuana Sitnikova, 1987
- Benedictia fragilis W. Dybowski, 1875 - type species
- Benedictia kotyensis Matiokin, Dzuban & Sitnikova, 1988
- Benedictia limnaeoides (Schrenck, 1867)
- Benedictia limnaeoides ongurensis Kozhov, 1936
- Benedictia limnaeoides litoralis Kozhov, 1936
- Benedictia maxima (W. Dybowski, 1875)
- Benedictia maxima marisminus Sitnikova, 1987
- Benedictia nana Beckman & Starobogatov, 1975
- Benedictia pulchella Sitnikova, 1987
- Benedictia pulchella sarmensis Sitnikova, 1987
- Benedictia pumyla (Lindholm, 1924)
- Benedictia shadini Beckman & Starobogatov, 1975