Semisulcospira

Semisulcospira
Shell of Semisulcospira pleuroceroides (lectotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Semisulcospiridae
Genus: Semisulcospira
Boettger, 1886[1]
Type species
Melania libertina
A. Gould, 1859
Synonyms
  • Biwamelania Matsuoka, 1985
  • Brotia (Senckenbergia) Yen, 1939 (junior synonym)
  • Hua (Namrutua) Abbott, 1948
  • Melania (Semisulcospira) O. Boettger, 1886 (original rank)
  • Namrutua Abbott, 1948 (junior synonym)
  • Semisulcospira (Biwamelania) Matsuoka, 1985 · alternate representation
  • Semisulcospira (Semisulcospira) O. Boettger, 1886 · alternate representation
  • Senckenbergia Yen, 1939 (junior synonym)

Semisulcospira is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Semisulcospiridae.[2] [3]

Species in the genus Semisulcospira are viviparous.[4]

  1. ^ Boettger (1886). Jahrb. dtsch. malak. Ges. 13: 4.
  2. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Semisulcospira O. Boettger, 1886. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=741120 on 2022-05-23
  3. ^ Lee, T., Hong, H. C., Kim, J. J., & Ó Foighil, D. (2007). Phylogenetic and taxonomic incongruence involving nuclear and mitochondrial markers in Korean populations of the freshwater snail genus Semisulcospira (Cerithioidea: Pleuroceridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 43(2), 386–397. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2007.02.018
  4. ^ Strong E. & Köhler F. (2009). "Morphological and molecular analysis of "Melania" jacqueti Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1906: from anonymous orphan to critical basal offshoot of the Semisulcospiridae (Gastropoda: Cerithioidea)". Zoologica Scripta 38(5): 483-502. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00385.x