Parafossarulus

Parafossarulus
Temporal range: Pleistocene–Recent
The shell of Parafossarulus crassitesta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Bithyniidae
Genus: Parafossarulus
Annandale, 1924
Type species
Paludina striatula
Benson, 1842

Parafossarulus is a genus of freshwater snails with gills and an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Bithyniidae.

Species

Species within the genus Parafossarulus include:

Taxonomy

Glöer (2002) reassigned two European extinct species of Parafossarulus into a subgenus of the genus Bithynia, but the genus Parafossarulus is generally accepted for the Asian species.

References

  1. 1 2 Annandale T. N. & Prashad B. (1924). "Report on a small collection of molluscs from the Chekiang province of China". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 16(1): 27-49. page 28. abstract[link removed].
  2. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2014). Parafossarulus Annandale, 1924. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=758823 on 2014-11-19
  3. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2014). Parafossarulus anomalospiralis Liu, Li & Liu, 1985. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=759213 on 2014-05-16
  4. ↑ Madhyastha A. & Jinghua F. (2014). "Parafossarulus eximius". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T166250A1122592. Downloaded on 26 December 2015.
  5. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2014). Parafossarulus globosus Liu, Zhang & Wang, 1994. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=758826 on 2014-05-16
  6. 1 2 3 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 March 22, 2012.
  7. ↑ Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., ISBN 3-925919-60-0, page 190-194.