Paladilhia
Encyclopedia
Paladilhia is a genus
of minute freshwater snail
s with an operculum
, aquatic
gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family
Moitessieriidae
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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
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...
Moitessieriidae
Moitessieriidae
Moitessieriidae is a family of small freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Rissooidea.According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi the family Moitessieriidae has no subfamilies....
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Species
Species within the genus Paladilhia include:- Paladilhia hungaricaPaladilhia hungaricaPaladilhia hungarica is a species of gastropod in the Moitessieriidae family. It is endemic to Hungary....
- Paladilhia pleurotomaPaladilhia pleurotomaPaladilhia pleurotoma is a species of gastropod in the Moitessieriidae family. It is endemic to France....
- Paladilhia bourguignati Locard, 1883
- Subgenus Paladilhiopsis Pavlovic, 1913