Doryssa
| Doryssa | |
|---|---|
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| Two shells of Doryssa consolidata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha |
| Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
| Family: | Pachychilidae |
| Genus: | Doryssa H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 |
Doryssa is a genus of freshwater snails which have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pachychilidae.
Distribution
These freshwater snails are endemic to South America.
Species
Species within the genus Doryssa include:
- Doryssa atra (Bruguière, 1792)[1]
- Doryssa brevior (Troschel, 1848) - type species of the genus Doryssa[2]
- Doryssa consolidata (Bruguière, 1790)[1]
- Doryssa derivans Brot, 1874
- Doryssa geijskesi (Pain, 1956)
- Doryssa gruneri (Jonas, 1844)[1]
- Doryssa hohenackeri (Philippi, 1851)[2]
- Doryssa kappleri (Vernhout, 1914)[3]
- Doryssa lamarckiana (Brot, 1870)[1]
- Doryssa petechialis (Brot, 1860)
- Doryssa schuppi (Ihering, 1902)
- Doryssa transversa (Lea, 1850)
References
- 1 2 3 4 Baker H. B. (1930). "The Mollusca collected by the University of Michigan – Williamson expedition in Venezuela". Occasional Paper of Museum of zoology 210: 1–95. PDF
- 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2015). Doryssa H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=848311 on 2015-10-09
- ↑ Abbott R. T. (1955). "Anatomy of the Venezuelan gastropod, Doryssa kappleri". The Nautilus 69: 44–46, plate.
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