Fukuia multistriata is a species of amphibious freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.[1]
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| Fukuia multistriata Abbott & Hunter, 1949
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Fukuia kurodai multistriata Abbott & Hunter, 1949 | |
Distribution
editThis species is endemic to Honshu, Japan.[1]
Ecology
editThis species is a freshwater snail that lives in mountain streamlets.[1] It is also an amphibious snail and it is often arboreal.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c d Kameda Y. & Kato M. (2011). "Terrestrial invasion of pomatiopsid gastropods in the heavy-snow region of the Japanese Archipelago". BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 118. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-118.
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