Akiyoshia

Akiyoshia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Amnicolidae
Subfamily: Amnicolinae[1]
Genus: Akiyoshia
Kuroda & Habe, 1954[2]

Akiyoshia is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Amnicolidae.

Distribution

The distribution of Akiyoshia includes Japan[1] from whence it was described.

There are some indications that so-called "Akiyoshia" species from southern China may not be true Akiyoshia.[1]

Description

Species in the subgenus Saganoa from Japan are blind snails.[3] "Akiyoshia" species from China are not blind.[3]

Species

Species within the genus Akiyoshia include:

Subgenus Akiyoshia

Subgenus Saganoa Kuroda, Habe & Tamu, 1957[4]

Nomina nuda:

Ecology

The habitat for species in the Saganoa subgenus from Japan is caves and wells.[3]

"Akiyoshia" species from China live in streams.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Davis G. M. & Rao S. (1997). "Discovery of Erhaia (Gastropoda: Pomatiopsidae) in northern India with description of a new genus of Erhaiini from China". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 48: 273-299. JSTOR.
  2. Kuroda & Habe (1954). Venus 18: 71-73. page 71, figure 1-4..
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Davis G. M., Chen C.-E., Wu C., Kuang T.-F., Xing X.-G., Li L., Liu W.-J. & Yan Y.-L. (1992). "The Pomatiopsidae of Hunan, China (Gastropoda, Rissoacea)". Malacologia 34(1-2): 143-342.
  4. Kuroda & Habe (1957). Venus 19: 186-187, figures 5-8.
  5. (Japanese) 矢野 重文 Yano S. (). "コウチミジンツボ香川県に出現 [The Occurrence of Akiyoshia (Saganoa) morimotoi (Hydrobiidae) from Kagawa-ken]". ちりぼたん Newsletter of the Malacological Society of Japan 18(1): 14-15. CiNii.

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