Stenomelania

Stenomelania
A live but retracted individual of Stenomelania crenulata on a human hand
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Thiaridae
Genus: Stenomelania
Fischer, 1885[1]

Stenomelania is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Thiaridae known as thiarids.

Species

Species within the genus Stenomelania include:

Synonyms:

References

  1. 1 2 (French) Fischer P., Oehlert P. & Woodward S. P. (1887). "Manuel de conchyliologie et de paléontologie conchyliologique ou histoire naturelle des mollusques vivants et fossiles suivi d'un appendice sur les brachipodes". Avec 23 planches contenant 600 figures et 1138 gravures dans le texte. pp. I-XXIV, pp. 1-1369, Plates I-XXIII, 1 map. Paris. page 701.
  2. "Genus taxon summary for Stenomelania". AnimalBase, last modified 26 May 2013, accessed 13 January 2016.
  3. Clark S. (2011). "Stenomelania denisoniensis". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T188945A8665967. Downloaded on 10 January 2016.
  4. "Species summary for Stenomelania torulosa". AnimalBase, last modified 26 May 2013, accessed 13 January 2016.
  5. Bruguière J. G. (1792). Encyclopédie méthodique. Histoire naturelle des vers. Tome premier, Paris, 3 pp. + j-xviij pp. + 757 pp., page 332.
  6. Köhler F. & Rintelen T. (2011). "Stenomelania uniformis". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T189354A8720112. Downloaded on 10 January 2016.
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