Miratesta is a genus of freshwater air-breathing snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids. All species in this genus have sinistral or left-coiling shells.
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Miratesta is the type genus of the tribe Miratestini.[2]
Species
editSpecies within the genus Miratesta include:
- Miratesta celebensis P. & F. Sarasin, 1898[3]
References
edit- ^ (in German) Sarasin P. & Sarasin F. (1897). "Über die Molluskenfauna der großen Süßwasser-Seen von Central-Celebes". Zoologischer Anzeiger 20: 241-245. page 242.
- ^ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
- ^ Bouchet, P. (2000). "Miratesta celebensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2000: e.T13580A4203152. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T13580A4203152.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
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