Benedictia maxima

Benedictia maxima
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Lithoglyphidae
Genus:	Benedictia
Species:	B. maxima
Binomial name
	Benedictia maxima; Dybowski, 1875
Synonyms
	Hydrobia maxima W. Dybowski, 1875

Benedictia maxima is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Lithoglyphidae.

Subspecies

Benedictia maxima maxima (W. Dybowski, 1875)
Benedictia maxima marisminus (Sitnikova, 1987)

Distribution

Benedictia maxima maxima lives in the southern and central parts of Lake Baikal, Siberia, in depths from 40 to 260 m. The type locality for Benedictia maxima maxima is Kultuk, in southern Baikal.

Benedictia maxima marisminus lives in the northern part of Lake Baikal, in depths from 20 to 220 m. The type locality for Benedictia maxima marisminus is Maloe More, in northern Baikal.

References

↑ Dybowski W. (1875). "Die Gastropoden-Fauna des Baikal-Sees, anatomisch und systematisch bearbeitet". Mémories de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.Pétersbourg (7)22(8), 73 pp., page 27, plate 1, fig. 24.
1 2 3 4 5 6 Kantor, Yu I.; Vinarski, M. V.; Schileyko, A. A.; Sysoev, A. V. (March 2, 2010). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories" (PDF). Ruthenica. Archived from the original on December 15, 2016.
↑ (in Russian) Sitnikova T. Ya. [Ситникова Т.Я.] (1987). "К систематике байкальских эндемичных моллюсков семейства Benedictiidae (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia) [To the systematics of baikalian endemic molluscs of the family Benedictiidae (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia)]". Зоологический Журнал Zoologicheskij Zhurnal 66(10): 1463–1476. page 1474, fig. 3-4.

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[1] Dybowski W. (1875). "Die Gastropoden-Fauna des Baikal-Sees, anatomisch und systematisch bearbeitet". Mémories de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.Pétersbourg (7)22(8), 73 pp., page 27, plate 1, fig. 24.

[Kantor_2010-2] 1 2 3 4 5 6 Kantor, Yu I.; Vinarski, M. V.; Schileyko, A. A.; Sysoev, A. V. (March 2, 2010). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories" (PDF). Ruthenica. Archived from the original on December 15, 2016.

[3] (in Russian) Sitnikova T. Ya. [Ситникова Т.Я.] (1987). "К систематике байкальских эндемичных моллюсков семейства Benedictiidae (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia) [To the systematics of baikalian endemic molluscs of the family Benedictiidae (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia)]". Зоологический Журнал Zoologicheskij Zhurnal 66(10): 1463–1476. page 1474, fig. 3-4.