Floridobia

Floridobia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Subfamily: Nymphophilinae
Genus: Floridobia
Thompson & Hershler, 2002[1]
Type species
Amnicola floridana
Frauenfeld, 1863[1]

Floridobia is a genus of very small freshwater snails that have an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Hydrobiidae, the mud snails.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Floridobia include:[1][3][4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Thompson F. G. & Hershler R. (2002). "Two genera of North American freshwater snails: Marstonia Baker, 1926, resurrected to generic status, and Floridobia, new genus (Prosobranchia: Hydrobiidae: Nymphophilinae)". The Veliger 45 (3): 269–271. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2014). "Floridobia F. G. Thompson & Hershler, 2002". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  3. "Floridobia". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. IUCN. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  4. "Floridobia". UniProt. Retrieved 4 August 2014.

Further reading


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