Lithoglyphus apertus

Lithoglyphus apertus
Drawing of an apertural view of the shell of Lithoglyphus apertus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Lithoglyphidae
Subfamily: Lithoglyphinae
Genus: Lithoglyphus
Species: L. apertus
Binomial name
Lithoglyphus apertus
(Küster, 1852)[1]
Synonyms[2]

Paludina aperta Küster, 1852

Lithoglyphus apertus is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Lithoglyphidae.[3]

Drawing of abapertural view of the shell of Lithoglyphus apertus

Distribution

The distribution of Lithoglyphus apertus includes rivers and sea-related areas near the northern Black Sea.[2]

The type locality is "in der Save bei Agram in Croatien", which means in the Sava River near Zagreb, Croatia.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 (German) Küster H. C. (1852). "Die Gattungen Paludina, Hydrocaena und Valvata". Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz: 1-56. Nurnberg, Bauer und Raspe. 45-46, plate 9, figs. 14-18.
  2. 1 2 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
  3. ↑ "Species in genus Lithoglyphus". AnimalBase, accessed 22 May 2011.

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