Marisa (gastropod)

Marisa (gastropod)
Marisa
A shell of Marisa cornuarietis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Ampullarioidea
Family: Ampullariidae
Genus: Marisa
J. E. Gray, 1824[1]
Diversity
2 species[2]

Marisa is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.

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Species

There are two[2] species within the genus Marisa:

Phylogeny

Based on analysis of mitochondrial 12S ribosomal RNA, 16S ribosomal RNA and cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) gene Marisa planogyra is a sister clade to Asolene spixii, which indicate, that Marisa is not monophyletic.[2]

References

  1. ^ Gray J. E. (1824). "Zoological notices". The Philosophical Magazine and Journal 63: 274-277. page 276.
  2. ^ a b c d e Rawlings T. A., Hayes K. A., Cowie R. H. & Collins T. M. (2007). "The identity, distribution, and impacts on non-native apple snails in the continental United States". BMC Evolutionary Biology 7: 97 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-97.

Further reading

  • Cowie R. H. & Thiengo S. C. (2003) "The apple snails of the Americas (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: Asolene, Felipponea, Marisa, Pomacea, Pomella): a nomenclatural and type catalog". Malacologia 45: 41-100.
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