Cleopatra (gastropod)

Cleopatra
Shell of Cleopatra ferruginea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
Family:	Paludomidae
Subfamily:	Cleopatrinae
Genus:	Cleopatra Troschel, 1857[1]
Diversity
Approximately 20 species[2]

Cleopatra is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Paludomidae within the subfamily Cleopatrinae.

Cleopatra is the type genus of the subfamily Cleopatrinae.^[3]

The diploid chromosome number of Cleopatra bulimoides is 2n=28.^[4]

Distribution

The distribution of the species within this genus includes Egypt, ...

Species

The genus Cleopatra includes the following species:

• Cleopatra africana (Martens, 1878)^[2]
• Cleopatra athiensis Verdcourt, 1957^[2]
• Cleopatra broecki Putzeys, 1899 - synonym: Potadomoides broecki (Putzeys, 1899)^[5]
• Cleopatra bulimoides (Olivier, 1804) - type species^[2]
• Cleopatra colbeaui (Craven, 1880)^[2]
• Cleopatra cridlandi Mandahl-Barth, 1954^[2]
• Cleopatra elata Dautzenberg & Germain, 1914^[2]
• Cleopatra exarata (Martens, 1878)^[2]
• Cleopatra ferruginea (I. & H. C. Lea, 1850)^[2]
• Cleopatra grandidieri (Crosse & Fischer, 1872)^[2]
• Cleopatra guillemei Bourguignat, 1885^[2]
• Cleopatra hemmingi Verdcourt, 1956^[2]
• Cleopatra johnstoni Smith, 1893^[2]
• Cleopatra langi Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927^[2]
• Cleopatra madagascariensis (Crosse & Fischer, 1872)^[2]
• Cleopatra mweruensis Smith, 1893^[2]
• Cleopatra nsendweensis Dupuis & Putzeys, 1902^[2]
• Cleopatra obscura Mandahl-Barth, 1968^[2]
• Cleopatra pilula Mandahl-Barth, 1967^[2]
• Cleopatra rugosa Connolly, 1925^[2]
• Cleopatra smithi Ancey, 1906^[2]

Ecology

The habitat of species in this genus includes slow-running freshwater streams.^[4]

Parasites of Cleopatra include:

• Serves as an intermediate host for Prohemistomum vivax.

References

1. ^ Troschel (1857). Gebiss Schneck. 1: 100.
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u} Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0 7484 0026 5.
3. ^ Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3925919724. ISSN 0076-2997. http://www.archive.org/details/malacologia47122005inst. 
4. ^ ^{a b} Amany A. Tohamy & Shaimaa M. Mohamed (2006). "Chromosomal studies on two Egyptian freshwater snails, Cleopatra and Bithynia (Mollusca-Prosobranchiata)". Arab J. Biotech. 9(1): 17-26. PDF.^{[dead link]}
5. ^ Glaubrecht M. (2010). "The enigmatic Cleopatra broecki Putzeys, 1899 of the Congo River system in Africa – re-transfer from Potadomoides Leloup, 1953 (Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea, Paludomidae)". Zoosystematics and Evolution 86(2): 283-293. doi:10.1002/zoos.201000011.

Further reading

• Yasseen A. E. (1994). "Chromosomal studies of freshwater snail Cleopatra bulimoides common in upper Egypt". Cytologia 59: 317-322.