Thiara (gastropod)

Thiara
Thiara cancellata Röding, 1798
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Thiaridae
Genus: Thiara
Röding, 1798
Synonyms
  • Amarula (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Thiara Bolten, 1798
  • Melania Lamarck, 1799
  • Melacantha Swainson, 1840

Thiara is a genus of freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Thiaridae.[1]

Species

Thiara winteri, abapertural view

Species with accepted names within the genus Thiara include:

(There probably should be brackets at some species).

References

  1. WoRMS (2009). Thiara. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206444 on 2010-05-18
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Shell-bearing Mollusca: Thiara
  3. WoRMS (2009). Thiara rodericensis (Smith, 1876). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=214677 on 2010-05-18
  4. Glöer P. & Pešić V. (2012). "The freshwater snails (Gastropoda) of Iran, with descriptions of two new genera and eight new species". ZooKeys 219: 11-61, doi:10.3897/zookeys.219.3406.
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