Robertsiella

Robertsiella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Pomatiopsidae
Subfamily: Triculinae
Tribe: Pachydrobiini[1]
Genus: Robertsiella
Davis & Greer, 1980[2]
Diversity[3]
3 species

Robertsiella is a genus of freshwater snails which have a gill and an operculum, gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Pomatiopsidae.

Distribution

The distribution of Robertsiella includes Malaysia.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Robertsiella include:

References

  1. Davis G. M. & Kang Z.-B. (1990). "The genus Wuconchona of China (Gastropoda: Pomatiopsidae: Triculinae): anatomy, systematics, cladistics, and transmission of Schistosoma". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 142: 119-142. JSTOR 4064974
  2. 1 2 Davis G. M. & Greer G. J. (1980). "A New Genus and Two New Species of Triculinae (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) and the Transmission of a Malaysian Mammalian Schistosoma Sp.". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 132: 245-276 . JSTOR. page 249.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Attwood S. W., Lokman H. S. & Ong K. Y. (2005). "Robertsiella silvicola, a new species of triculine snail (Caenogastropoda: Pomatiopsidae) from peninsular Malaysia, intermediate host of Schistosoma malayensis (Trematoda: Digenea)". Journal of Molluscan Studies 71(4): 379-391. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyi040.

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