Mercuria (gastropod)

Mercuria (gastropod)
Mercuria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Mercuria
Boeters, 1971[1]

Mercuria is a genus of small brackish water snails or freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae.

Species

Species within the genus Mercuria include:

  • Mercuria bourguignati Glöer, Bouzid & Boeters, 2010[2]
  • Mercuria confusa (Frauenfeld, 1863)[3]
  • Mercuria emiliana [1]
  • Mercuria gauthieri Glöer, Bouzid & Boeters, 2010[2]
  • Mercuria similis[4]

References

  1. ^ Boeters (1971). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 101: 177.
  2. ^ a b Glöer P., Bouzid S. & Boeters H. D. (2010). "Revision of the genera Pseudamnicola Paulucci 1878 and Mercuria Boeters 1971 from Algeria with particular emphasis on museum collections (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Hydrobiidae)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 139(1): 1-22. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/139/001-022.
  3. ^ Gofas, S. (2011). Mercuria confusa (Frauenfeld, 1863). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=153887 on 2011-06-25
  4. ^ Chlyeh G., Dodet M., Delay B., Khallaayoune K. & Jarne P. (2006). "Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Freshwater Snail Species in Relation to Migration and Environmental Factors in an Irrigated Area from Morocco". Hydrobiologia 553(1): 129-142. doi:10.1007/s10750-005-0968-9.

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