Neoprososthenia

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

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Pomatiopsidae
Subfamily: Triculinae
Tribe: Jullieniini[1]
Genus: Neoprososthenia
Davis & Kuo, 1981[2]
Diversity
4 species[2]

Neoprososthenia is a genus of freshwater snails with gills and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pomatiopsidae.

Species

The genus was established for extant species that were previously placed in the genus Paraprososthenia.[2]

Species within the genus Neoprososthenia include:

  • Neoprososthenia hanseni (Brandt, 1970)[2]
  • Neoprososthenia iijimai (Brandt, 1970)[2]
  • Neoprososthenia levayi (Bavay, 1895) - type species[2]
  • Neoprososthenia poirieri (Brandt, 1970)[2]

References

  1. ^ Davis G. M., Wilke T., Zhang Y., Xu X.-J., Qiu C.-P., Spolsky C., Qiu D.-C., Li Y., Xia M.-Y. & Feng Z. (1999). "Snail-Schistosoma, Paragonimus interactions in China: population ecology, genetic diversity, coevolution and emerging diseases". Malacologia 41(2): 355-377.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Davis G. M., Kuo Y.-H., Elaine Hoagland K., Chen P.-L., Yang H.-M. & Chen D.-J. (1981). "Kunmingia, a New Genus of Triculinae (Gastropoda: Pomatiopsidae) from China: Phenetic and Cladistic Relationships". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 136: 165-193. JSTOR.


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