Mercuria (gastropod)

Mercuria
Shell of Mercuria bourguignati (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Subfamily: Mercuriinae
Boeters & Falkner, 2017
Genus: Mercuria
Boeters, 1971[1]
Type species
Amnicola confusa
Frauenfeld, 1863
Synonyms[2]
  • Anatiniana Fagot, 1892 (invalid: junior homonym of Anatiniana Bourguignat, 1881 [Unionidae])
  • Cyrniacana Fagot, 1892 (declared nomen oblitum vs Mercuria nomen protectum)
  • Similiana Fagot, 1892 (invalid: junior homonym of Similiana Fagot, 1891 [Chondrinidae])

Mercuria is a genus of small brackish water snails or freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae.[3]

  1. ^ Boeters, H. D. (1971). Pseudamnicola Paulucci, 1878 und Mercuria n. gen. (Prosobranchia, Hydrobiidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 101: 177.
  2. ^ "Mercuria". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  3. ^ Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.