Thiara

Thiara
Thiara cancellata shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	incertae sedis
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
Family:	Thiaridae
Genus:	Thiara Röding, 1798
Type species
Helix amarula Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms
Amarula (Linnaeus, 1758) Cerithomelania J. Moore, 1899 (objective synonym of Thiara) Doryssa (Melania) Lamarck, 1799 Melacantha Swainson, 1840 (objective synonym of Thiara) Melanea Lamarck, 1799 (incorrect subsequent spelling; junior objective synonym, with the same type species) Melania Lamarck, 1799 Melania (Tiaropsis) Brot, 1871 (invalid: junior homonym of Tiaropsis L. Agassiz, 1850 [Cnidaria]) Thiara Bolten, 1798

Thiara is a genus of freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Thiarinae of the family Thiaridae.

Species

Species with accepted names within the genus Thiara include:

• † Thiara aldrichi Palmer, 1944
• Thiara amarula (C. Linnaeus, 1758) - Africa, Australia, India
• Thiara aspera (Lesson, 1831)
• Thiara australis (I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851)
• Thiara bellicosa (Hinds, 1844)
• Thiara cancellata P. F. Röding, 1798 - Indo-Pacific
• Thiara epidromoides (Tapparone Canefri, 1883)
• † Thiara fallax (Oostingh, 1935)
• Thiara herklotzi (Petit de la Saussaye, 1853)
• Thiara indefinita (I. & H. C. Lea, 1851) - Hawaiian Islands
• Thiara jingorum Thach & F. Huber, 2021
• Thiara kauaiensis (W. H. Pease, 1870) - Hawaiian Islands
• † Thiara martini (Oostingh, 1935)
• Thiara paludomoidea Nevill, 1884 - India (unresolved name)
• Thiara prashadi Ray, 1947 - India
• Thiara rudis I. Lea, 1850 - India
• † Thiara samarangana (K. Martin, 1884)
• Thiara setigera (Brot, 1870)
• Thiara verrauiana I. Lea, 1856 - Hawaiian Islands
• Thiara winteri (von Dem Busch, 1842) - Indo-Pacific, spiky trumpet snail

Synonyms

• Thiara amaruloidea Iredale, 1943: synonym of Thiara amarula (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Thiara balonnensis T. A. Conrad, 1850 and Thiara lirata C. T. Menke, 1843 are synonyms of Plotiopsis balonnensis (Conrad, 1850)
• Thiara baldwini C. F. Ancey, 1899 - Hawaiian Islands: synonym of Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774) (junior synonym)
• † Thiara fiscina Yokoyama, 1932: synonym of † Semisulcospira fiscina (Yokoyama, 1932) (new combination)
• Thiara granifera (Lamarck, 1822): synonym of Tarebia granifera (Lamarck, 1816)
• Thiara lineata Gray, 1828 - India: synonym of Tarebia granifera (Lamarck, 1822)
• Thiara punctata (J. B. Lamarck, 1822) - India: synonym of Stenomelania punctata (Lamarck, 1822)
• Thiara riquetii (Grateloup, 1840): synonym of Sermyla riquetii (Grateloup, 1840)
• Thiara rodericensis (E. A. Smith, 1876): synonym of Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774)
• Thiara scabra (O. F. Müller, 1774) - Indo-Pacific: synonym of Mieniplotia scabra (O. F. Müller, 1774)
  • Thiara scabra lyriformis I. Lea, 1850 - Japan
  • Thiara scabra pagoda I. Lea, 1850 - Japan
  • Thiara scabra subplicatula Smith, 1878 - Japan
• Thiara speciosa A. Adams, 1854: synonym of Thiara amarula (C. Linnaeus, 1758)
• Thiara torulosa (Bruguière, 1789) - India: synonym of Stenomelania torulosa (Bruguière, 1789)
• Thiara tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774): synonym of Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774)
• Thiara vouamica Bourguignat, 1890: synonym of Thiara amarula (Linnaeus, 1758) (junior synonym)

References

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• Röding, P.F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg. viii, 199 pp
• Brot, A. (1871). Catalogue of the Recent species of the family Melanidae. American Journal of Conchology. 6(4): 271-325
• Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. London, Longman. viii + 419 pp
• Sowerby, G. B. II. (1842). A conchological manual. 2nd Edition. 1–313, 2 folding tables, 26 pls. London: Henry G. Bohn
• Glaubrecht M., Brinkmann N. & Pöppe J. (2009). Diversity and disparity ‘down under': Systematics, biogeography and reproductive modes of the ‘marsupial' freshwater Thiaridae (Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea) in Australia. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 85(2): 199-275