- Miratesta
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Miratesta Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade HygrophilaSuperfamily: Planorboidea Family: Planorbidae Subfamily: Bulininae Tribe: Miratestini Genus: Miratesta
Sarasin, 1897[1]Miratesta is a genus of freshwater air-breathing snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids. All species in this genus have sinistral or left-coiling shells.
Miratesta is the type genus of the tribe Miratestini.[2]
Species
Species within the genus Miratesta include:
- Miratesta celebensis P. & F. Sarasin, 1898[3]
References
- ^ Sarasin (1897). Zool. Anz. 20: 242.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Bouchet P. (2000). Miratesta celebensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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