Pseudamnicola
Encyclopedia
Pseudamnicola is a genus
of small brackish water
snail
s with an operculum
, aquatic
gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae
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Pseudamnicola is the type genus of the subfamily Pseudamnicolinae.
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 small brackish water
Brackish water
Brackish water is water that has more salinity than fresh water, but not as much as seawater. It may result from mixing of seawater with fresh water, as in estuaries, or it may occur in brackish fossil aquifers. The word comes from the Middle Dutch root "brak," meaning "salty"...
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 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 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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Pseudamnicola is the type genus of the subfamily Pseudamnicolinae.
Species
Species in the genus Pseudamnicola include:- Pseudamnicola algeriensis Glöer, Bouzid & Boeters, 2010
- Pseudamnicola anteisensisPseudamnicola anteisensisPseudamnicola anteisensis is a species of small brackish water snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to France.- References :* Bouchet, P. 1996. . Downloaded on 7 August 2007....
- Pseudamnicola artanensisPseudamnicola artanensisPseudamnicola artanensis is a species of very small brackish water snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae....
- Pseudamnicola beckmanni Glöer & Zettler, 2007
- Pseudamnicola boucheti Glöer, Bouzid & Boeters, 2010
- Pseudamnicola calamensis Glöer, Bouzid & Boeters, 2010
- Pseudamnicola chabii Glöer, Bouzid & Boeters, 2010
- Pseudamnicola fineti Glöer, Bouzid & Boeters, 2010
- Pseudamnicola gasulli Boeters, 1981
- Pseudamnicola gerhardfalkneri Glöer, Bouzid & Boeters, 2010
- Pseudamnicola ghamizii Glöer, Bouzid & Boeters, 2010
- Pseudamnicola granjaensis
- Pseudamnicola klemmiPseudamnicola klemmiPseudamnicola klemmi is a species of gastropod in the Hydrobiidae family. It is endemic to France.-Source:* Bouchet, P. 1996. . Downloaded on 7 August 2007....
- Pseudamnicola linae Glöer, Bouzid & Boeters, 2010
- Pseudamnicola melitensisPseudamnicola melitensisPseudamnicola melitensis is a species of gastropod in the Hydrobiidae family. It is endemic to Malta....
- Pseudamnicola meloussensisPseudamnicola meloussensisPseudamnicola meloussensis is a species of freshwater snail, a gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae....
- Pseudamnicola rouagi Glöer, Bouzid & Boeters, 2010
- Pseudamnicola tramuntanaePseudamnicola tramuntanaePseudamnicola tramuntanae is a species of freshwater snail, a gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae....
Further reading
- Schütt H. and Şeşen R. (1993). "Pseudamnicola species and other freshwater gastropods (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from East Anatolia (Turkey), the Ukraine and the Lebanon". Basteria 57: 161-171.