Pyrgula

Pyrgula
Photo of apertural view of shells of Pyrgula annulata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Pyrgula
Cristofori & Jan, 1832
Synonyms
  • Pyrgidium Toumouër, 1869
  • Pirgula Brusina, 1881
  • Pyrgiscus Herrmannsen, 1848

Pyrgula is a genus of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.

Pyrgula is the type genus of the subfamily Pyrgulinae. Pyrgula annulata is the type species of the genus Pyrgula.

Species

Species within the genus Pyrgula include:

References

  1. ↑ Cristofori & Jan (1832). Cat. Mus. (Mantissa Test.), 4.
  2. ↑ Kabat A. R. & Hershler R. (1993). "The prosobranch snail family Hydrobiidae (Gastropoda: Rissooidea): review of classification and supraspecific taxa". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 547: 1-94. PDF.
  3. 1 2 Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)
  4. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2014). Pyrgula de Cristofori & Jan, 1832. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575798 on 2014-11-11
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Pyrgula. Fauna Europaea, last update 27 January 2011, accessed 11 June 2011.