Neotricula

Neotricula
Neotricula aperta on a stone
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Pomatiopsidae
Genus: Neotricula
Davis in Davis, Subba Rao & Hoagland, 1986
Diversity
At least 5 species

Neotricula is a genus freshwater snails which have a gill and an operculum, gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Pomatiopsidae.

Distribution

The distribution of Neotricula includes Hunan (at least 5 species), China, Laos (one species), Thailand and Cambodia.

Species

Species within the genus Neotricula include:

References

  1. 1 2 Davis G. M., Subba Rao N. V. & Hoagland K. E. (1986). "In Search of Tricula (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia): Tricula Defined, and a New Genus Described". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 138(2): 426-442. JSTOR. page 436.
  2. 1 2 3 Attwood S. W., Fatih F. A. & Upatham E. S. (2008). "DNA-Sequence Variation Among Schistosoma mekongi Populations and Related Taxa; Phylogeography and the Current Distribution of Asian Schistosomiasis". PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2(3): e200. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000200.
  3. 1 2 Attwood S. W., Ambu S., Meng X. H., Upatham E. S., Xu F.-S. et al. (2003). "The phylogenetics of triculine snails (Rissooidea: Pomatiopsidae) from south-east Asia and southern China: historical biogeography and the transmission of human schistosomiasis. Journal of Molluscan Studies 69(3): 263-271. doi:10.1093/mollus/69.3.263.