- Gundlachia
Taxobox
name = "Gundlachia"
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regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Mollusca
classis =Gastropoda
subclassis =Orthogastropoda
superordo =Heterobranchia
ordo =Pulmonata
subordo =Basommatophora
familia =Ancylidae
genus = "Gundlachia"
genus_authority = Pfeiffer, 1849
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.(Note: "Gundlachia" is also the name of a genus ofshrub s which live in theCaribbean islands.)"Gundlachia" is a genus of minute freshwater snails or
limpet s,aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk s in the familyAncylidae , the river limpets. They have a world-wide distribution.These animals have a pallial lung, as do all pulmonate snails, but they also have a false gill or "pseudobranch". This serves as a
gill as, in their non-tidal habitat, these limpets never reach the surface for air.pecies within the genus "Gundlachia"
* "
Gundlachia concentrica " (d’Orbigny, 1835)
* "Gundlachia lucasi " Suter, 1905
* "Gundlachia meehiana " Stimpson
* "Gundlachia moricandi " (Orbigny, 1837)
* "Gundlachia neozelanica " Suter, 1905
* "Gundlachia ticaga " (Marcus & Marcus, 1962)References
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* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
* [http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?pid=S0034-77442001000300004&script=sci_arttext Scielo]
* [http://www.bioline.org.br/request?oc04095 Bioline]
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