Pseudamnicola macrostoma

Pseudamnicola macrostoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Subfamily: Pseudamnicolinae
Genus: Pseudamnicola
Subgenus: Pseudamnicola
Species: P. macrostoma
Binomial name
Pseudamnicola macrostoma
(Küster, 1853)
Synonyms

Paludina macrostoma Küster, 1853[2]

Pseudamnicola macrostoma is a species of very small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Hydrobiidae.[1][2]

Subspecies

Two subspecies are recognised, the nominotypical P. m. subsp. macrostoma and P. m. subsp. negropontina, the latter being treated as a distinct species (Pseudamnicola negropontina) by some authors.[3][4]

Geographic distribution

P. macrostoma is endemic to Greece.[1][2] The species was originally described from a number of springs in the vicinity of Athens but was later also recorded from Evvia as well as several islands in the Aegean and Ionian seas.[1][4]

References


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