Benedictia maxima explained

Benedictia maxima is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Lithoglyphidae.

Subspecies

• Benedictia maxima maxima (W. Dybowski, 1875)
• Benedictia maxima marisminus (Sitnikova, 1987)^[1]

Distribution

Benedictia maxima maxima lives in the southern and central parts of Lake Baikal, Siberia, in depths from 40 to 260 m.^[2] The type locality for Benedictia maxima maxima is Kultuk, in southern Baikal.^[2]

Benedictia maxima marisminus lives in the northern part of Lake Baikal, in depths from 20 to 220 m.^[2] The type locality for Benedictia maxima marisminus is Maloe More, in northern Baikal.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Sitnikova T. Ya. [Ситникова Т.Я.] (1987). "К систематике байкальских эндемичных моллюсков семейства Benedictiidae (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia) [To the systematics of baikalian endemic molluscs of the family Benedictiidae (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia)]". Зоологический Журнал Zoologicheskij Zhurnal 66(10): 1463–1476. page 1474, fig. 3-4.
2. Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on March 2, 2010). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.1.