Parafossarulus is a genus of freshwater snails with gills and an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Bithyniidae.[2]
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| The shell of Parafossarulus crassitesta | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Bithyniidae |
| Genus: | Parafossarulus Annandale, 1924[1] |
| Type species | |
| Paludina striatula Benson, 1842
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Species
editSpecies within the genus Parafossarulus include:
- Parafossarulus anomalospiralis Liu, Li & Liu, 1985[3]
- † Parafossarulus crassitesta (Bröhmme, 1885)
- Parafossarulus eximius (Frauenfeld)[4]
- Parafossarulus globosus Liu, Zhang & Wang, 1994[5]
- † Parafossarulus priscillae Girotti, 1972
- Parafossarulus manchouricus (Gerstfeldt in Bourguignat, 1860)[6]
- Parafossarulus spiridonovi Zatrawkin & Starobogatov in Zatrawkin, Dovgalev & Starobogatov, 1989[6]
- Parafossarulus striatulus (Benson, 1842) - type species[1]
- Parafossarulus sungariensis Moskvicheva in Starobogatov, Zatravkin, 1987[6]
Taxonomy
editGlöer (2002)[7] reassigned two European extinct species of Parafossarulus into a subgenus of the genus Bithynia, but the genus Parafossarulus is generally accepted for the Asian species.
References
edit- ^ a b Annandale T. N. & Prashad B. (1924). "Report on a small collection of molluscs from the Chekiang province of China". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 16(1): 27-49. page 28. abstract.
- ^ Bouchet, P. (2014). Parafossarulus Annandale, 1924. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=758823 on 2014-11-19
- ^ Bouchet, P. (2014). Parafossarulus anomalospiralis Liu, Li & Liu, 1985. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=759213 on 2014-05-16
- ^ Madhyastha A. & Jinghua F. (2014). "Parafossarulus eximius". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T166250A1122592. Downloaded on 26 December 2015.
- ^ Bouchet, P. (2014). Parafossarulus globosus Liu, Zhang & Wang, 1994. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=758826 on 2014-05-16
- ^ a b c Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on March 2, 2010). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.1.
- ^ Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., ISBN 3-925919-60-0, page 190-194.
External links
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