Theodoxus jordani

Theodoxus jordani
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Neritimorpha

clade Cycloneritimorpha

Superfamily: Neritoidea
Family: Neritidae
Subfamily: Neritininae
Tribe: Theodoxini
Genus: Theodoxus
Subgenus: Neritaea
Species: T. jordani
Binomial name
Theodoxus jordani
(G. B. Sowerby I, 1836)[note 1]

Theodoxus jordani is a species of a freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

Distribution

This species occurs in:

The type locality is Jordan Basin.[1]

Shells of this species were also found in Üçağızlı Cave in Turkey, in deposits from the Upper Paleolithic which probably originated from the Orontes River.[4]

Parasites

Parasites of Theodoxus jordani include two types of trematodes.[2]

Predators

Predators of Theodoxus jordani include:

Footnotes

  1. Various years of description are referred: 1832, 1836, 1844.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Van Damme D. (2014). "Theodoxus jordani". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 March 2015.
  2. 1 2 Abdel-Hafez S. K. & Ismail N. S. (1983). "Larval stages of digenetic trematodes of Theodoxus jordani (Sowerby 1836) snails from Yarmouk River, Jordan". Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde 69(6): 789-796. doi:10.1007/BF00927428.
  3. Amr Z. S & Abu Baker M. (2004). "Freshwater snails of Jordan". 'Denisia 14: 221-227. PDF.
  4. Kuhn S. L., Stiner M. C., Reese D. S. & Güleç E. (2001). "Ornaments of the earliest Upper Paleolithic: New insights from the Levant". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 98(13): 7641–7646. doi:10.1073/pnas.121590798.
  5. 1 2 Heller J. (1979). "Visual versus non-visual selection of shell colour in an Israeli freshwater snail". Oecologia 44(1): 98-104. doi:10.1007/BF00346406.

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