Sibirenauta

Sibirenauta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily: Planorboidea
Family: Physidae
Subfamily: Aplexinae
Tribe: Aplexini
Genus: Sibirenauta
Starobogatov & Streletzkaja, 1967[1]
Diversity[2]
4 species

Sibirenauta is a genus of left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Physidae.

The scientific name Sibirenauta is composed from the word Siberia, where its species live and from the Latin word nauta, that means "sailor".[2]

Distribution

Distribution the genus Sibirenauta ranges from Siberia to Canada and the United States of America.[2]

Species

Species in the genus Sibirenauta include:

References

  1. Starobogatov Y. I. & Streletskaja E. A. (1967). Sostav i zoogeograficheskaya kharakteristika presnovodnoi malakofauny vostochnoi Sibiri i severa dal’nego vostoka. Trudy Zool. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR 42: 221-268.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Taylor D. W. (2003). "Introduction to Physidae (Gastropoda: Hygrophila). Biology, classification, morphology". Revista de Biología Tropical 51(Suppl. 1): 1-299. (1-195, 197-263, 265-287). pages 10-11, 56-71.
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