Ancylastrum

Ancylastrum
Shell of Ancylastrum cumingianum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Hygrophila
Family: Planorbidae
Genus: Ancylastrum
Bourguignat, 1853
Type species
Ancylus (Ancylastrum) cumingianus
Bourguignat, 1853
Synonyms
  • Ancylus (Ancylastrum) Bourguignat, 1853; superseded rank

Ancylastrum is a genus of air-breathing freshwater limpets, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies.

Taxonomy

Ancylastrum was first described as a subgenus of Ancylus in 1853 by Jules René Bourguignat, a malacologist. He named Ancylastrum cumingianum as the type species. Several authors later erroneously redescribed the genus under different names, including Legrandia and Cumingia. Additionally, the name Ancylastrum is sometimes credited to Alfred Moquin-Tandon, though officially, the name belongs to Bourguignat because of his publication of the name.

Species

The genus Ancylastrum includes the following species:

Species inquirenda

References

  1. 1 2 3 Bourguignat, J. R. (1853). "Catalogue des espèces du genre Ancylus". Journal de conchyliologie (in French). 4: 170–171. ISSN 0021-7719. OCLC 1605690.
  2. ↑ Dekker, Henk (2025). Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O (eds.). "Ancylastrum Bourguignatm 1853". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  3. ↑ Legrand, W. (1871). "On a new Genus of Freshwater Mollusks". Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania: 27–28. ISSN 0080-4703. LCCN sf80001515.
  4. 1 2 3 Hedley, Charles (1894). "On the value of Ancylastrum". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 1 (2): 118. ISSN 0025-1194. LCCN gs16000676. OCLC 1909246.