Kessneria is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails. [2]
| Kessneria | |
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| Shell of Kessneria papillosa (paratype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Superfamily: | Lymnaeoidea |
| Family: | Planorbidae |
| Subfamily: | Miratestinae |
| Genus: | Kessneria Walker & Ponder, 2001[1] |
| Type species | |
| Kessneria papillosa J. C. Walker & Ponder, 2001 | |
All species within family Planorbidae have sinistral shells.
Distribution
editThis genus is endemic to, and restricted to, northern Australia.[1]
Species
editSpecies within this genus include:
- Kessneria papillosa Walker & Ponder, 2001[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c Walker J. C. & Ponder W. (2001). "A new genus and species of Planorbidae (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Pulmonata) from northern Australia". Journal of Molluscan Studies 67: 153-160. abstract.
- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Kessneria J. C. Walker & Ponder, 2001. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818333 on 2021-04-12
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