Pyrgula

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Pyrgula
Photo of apertural view of shells of Pyrgula annulata
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Pyrgula

Cristofori & Jan, 1832[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Pyrgidium Toumouër, 1869
  • Pirgula Brusina, 1881
  • Pyrgiscus Herrmannsen, 1848

Pyrgula is a genus of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.[3][4]

Pyrgula is the type genus of the subfamily Pyrgulinae.[3] Pyrgula annulata is the type species of the genus Pyrgula.

Species[edit]

Species within the genus Pyrgula include:

References[edit]

  1. ^ Cristofori & Jan (1832). Cat. Mus. (Mantissa Test.), 4.
  2. ^ Kabat A. R. & Hershler R. (1993). "The prosobranch snail family Hydrobiidae (Gastropoda: Rissooidea): review of classification and supraspecific taxa". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 547: 1-94. PDF.
  3. ^ a b 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.
  4. ^ Bouchet, P. (2014). Pyrgula de Cristofori & Jan, 1832. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575798 on 2014-11-11
  5. ^ a b c d e Pyrgula. Fauna Europaea, last update 27 January 2011, accessed 11 June 2011.

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