Glyptophysa
| Glyptophysa | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Hygrophila |
| Superfamily: | Planorboidea |
| Family: | Planorbidae |
| Subfamily: | Bulininae[1] sensu Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005 or "B-clade" sensu Albrecht et al. (2007)[2] |
| Genus: | Glyptophysa Crosse, 1872[3] |
Glyptophysa is a genus of small sinistral (left-handed) air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae.
Species
Species in this genus include:
- Glyptophysa aliciae Reeve, 1862[4] - may belong in Glyptophysa petiti
- Glyptophysa georgiana (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) - King George’s Freshwater Snail[4]
- Glyptophysa gibbosa (Gould, 1846)[4]
- Glyptophysa multistrigata (Cooke, 1889) - tentatively placed here
- Glyptophysa oconnori Cumber, 1941[4]
- Glyptophysa petiti (Crosse 1872) - type species[1]
- Glyptophysa proteus (Sowerby, 1873) - tentatively placed here
Ecology
Glyptophysa snails are grazers-scrapers.[5]
References
- 1 2 Walker J. C. (1988). "Classification of Australian buliniform planorbids (Mollusca: Pulmonata)". Records of the Australian Museum 40: 61-89. PDF. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.40.1988.151
- ↑ Albrecht C., Kuhn K. & Streit B. (2007). "A molecular phylogeny of Planorboidea (Gastropoda, Pulmonata): insights from enhanced taxon sampling". Zoologica Scripta 36: 27-39.doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00258.x.
- ↑ Crosse J. C. H. (1872). J. Conchyliol. 20: 151.
- 1 2 3 4 IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 3 July 2012.
- ↑ Wahizatul A. A. & Jennings J. T. (2011). "Impact of Exotic Willow Roots (Salix spp.) as Habitat for Aquatic Invertebrate Communities in South Australian Stream". Asian Journal of Biological Sciences 4(5): 428-444. doi:10.3923/ajbs.2011.428.444.
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