Semisulcospira
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Semisulcospira is a genus
of freshwater snail
s with an operculum
, an aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Semisulcospiridae
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Species in the genus Semisulcospira are viviparous.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of freshwater snail
Freshwater snail
A freshwater snail is one kind of freshwater mollusc, the other kind being freshwater clams and mussels, i.e. freshwater bivalves. Specifically a freshwater snail is a gastropod that lives in a watery non-marine habitat. The majority of freshwater gastropods have a shell, with very few exceptions....
s with an operculum
Operculum (gastropod)
The operculum, meaning little lid, is a corneous or calcareous anatomical structure which exists in many groups of sea snails and freshwater snails, and also in a few groups of land snails...
, an aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Semisulcospiridae
Semisulcospiridae
Semisulcospiridae, common name semisulcospirids, is a family of freshwater snails, aquatic gilled gastropod mollusks with an operculum, in the superfamily Cerithioidea....
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Species in the genus Semisulcospira are viviparous.
Species
Species withn the genus Semisulcospira include:- Semisulcospira forticosta (Martens, 1886)
- Semisulcospira gottschei (Martens, 1886)
- Semisulcospira kurodaiSemisulcospira kurodaiSemisulcospira kurodai is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Semisulcospiridae.Prior to 2009 was this species in the Pleuroceridae.- Description :...
Kajiyama & Habe, 1961 - Semisulcospira libertina (Gould, 1859)
- Semisulcospira tegulata (Martens, 1894)
Further reading
- Davis G. M. (1969). "A taxonomic study of some species of Semisulcospira in Japan (MESOGASTROPODA: PLEUROCERIDAE)". MalacologiaMalacologiaMalacologia is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of malacology, the study of mollusks. The journal publishes articles in the fields of molluscan systematics, ecology, population ecology, genetics, molecular genetics, evolution, and phylogenetics.The journal specializes in publishing...
7: 211-294. - Oniwa K. & Kimura M. (1986). "Genetic variability and relationships in six snail species of the genus Semisulcospira". The Japanese journal of genetics 61(5): 503-514. CiNii. doi:10.1266/jjg.61.503 Matsuoka K. & .野尻湖貝類グループ (1982) (Fossil Mollusc Research Group for Noiiri-ko Excavation). "野尻湖層産カワニナ胎児殼化石について : 現生カワニナとの比較研究 "On the fossil embryonic shell of Semisulcospira libertina (GOULD) (Mesogastropoda: Pleuroceridae) from the latest Pleistocene Nojiri-koLake Nojiriis in the town of Shinano, Kamiminochi District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Second to Lake Suwa among lakes in Nagano Prefecture, Nojiri is a resort, the location of the first pumped-storage hydroelectricity in Japan, and the site of a paleolithic excavation....
Formation, Nagano Prefecture, Central Japan: A comparative study of recent and fossil Semisulcospira". 地球科學 Chikyu kagaku [Earth science] 36(4), 175-184. CiNii.
External links
- searching for Semisulcospira at CiNii