Mexinauta

Mexinauta
Shell of Mexinauta impluviatus(syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Superorder:	Hygrophila
Superfamily:	Lymnaeoidea
Family:	Physidae
Genus:	Mexinauta D. W. Taylor, 2003
Type species
Physa nitens Philippi, 1841

Mexinauta is a genus of small, left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Aplexinae of the family Physidae.

Species

• Mexinauta aurantius (Carpenter, 1857)
• Mexinauta gracilentus (P. Fischer & Crosse, 1886)
• Mexinauta impluviatus (Morelet, 1849)
• Mexinauta laetus (E. von Martens, 1898)
• Mexinauta nicaraguanus (Morelet, 1851)
• Mexinauta nitens (Philippi, 1841)
• Mexinauta peruvianus (Gray, 1828)
• Mexinauta princeps (Phillips, 1846)

Synonyms

• Mexinauta aurantia (Carpenter, 1857): synonym of Mexinauta aurantius (Carpenter, 1857) (wrong gender agreement of specific epithet; Mexinauta is masculine")

References

External links

• Media related to Mexinauta at Wikimedia Commons
• Taylor, D. W. (2003). Introduction to Physidae (Gastropoda: Hygrophila); biogeography, classification, morphology. Revista de Biología Tropical. 51(Suppl. 1): 1-263 (includes a Catalog of species, pp. 197-263)