Radix (gastropod)

Radix
A shell of Radix auricularia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Hygrophila
Family: Lymnaeidae
Genus: Radix
Montfort, 1810[1]
Type species
Radix auriculatus Montfort, 1810
Synonyms[2]
  • Auriculariana Servain, 1881
  • Gulnaria Turton, 1831
  • Limnaea (Radix) Montfort, 1810 (genus-subgenus combination not accepted)
  • Lymnaea (Peregriana) Servain, 1881
  • Lymnaea (Radix) Montfort, 1810 (genus-subgenus combination not accepted)
  • Neritostoma H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855
  • Radix (Peregriana) Servain, 1881
  • Radix (Radix) Montfort, 1810

Radix is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropods in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.[2]

The genus Radix has a Palaearctic distribution.[3]

  1. ^ Montfort D. de 1810. Conchyliologie systématique, et classification méthodique des coquilles; offrant leurs figures, leur arrangement générique, leurs descriptions caractéristiques, leurs noms; ainsi que leur synonymie en plusieurs langues. Ouvrage destiné à faciliter l'étude des coquilles, ainsi que leur disposition dans les cabinets d'histoire naturelle. Coquilles univalves, non cloisonnées. Tome second. pp. [1-3], 1-676. Paris. (Schoell).
  2. ^ a b Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Radix Montfort, 1810. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=248262 on 2013-06-06
  3. ^ Pfenninger, M.; Cordellier, M.; Streit, B. (2006). "Comparing the efficacy of morphologic and DNA-based taxonomy in the freshwater gastropod genus Radix (Basommatophora, Pulmonata)". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 6: 100. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-6-100. PMC 1679812. PMID 17123437.