Genus of gastropods
Semisulcospira
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Shell of Semisulcospira pleuroceroides (lectotype at MNHN, Paris)
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Scientific classification
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Domain:
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Eukaryota
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Kingdom:
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Animalia
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Phylum:
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Mollusca
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Class:
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Gastropoda
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Subclass:
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Caenogastropoda
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Superfamily:
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Cerithioidea
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Family:
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Semisulcospiridae
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Genus:
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Semisulcospira Boettger, 1886[1]
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Type species
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Melania libertina
A. Gould, 1859
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Synonyms
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- 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)
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Semisulcospira is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Semisulcospiridae.[2]
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Species in the genus Semisulcospira are viviparous.[4]
- ^ Boettger (1886). Jahrb. dtsch. malak. Ges. 13: 4.
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ 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