Mercuria (gastropod) explained

Mercuria is a genus of small brackish water snails or freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae.^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Mercuria include:^[2]

• Mercuria anatina (Poiret, 1801)
• Mercuria atlasica Mabrouki, Glöer & Taybi, 2021
• Mercuria baccinelliana Esu & Girotti, 2015
• Mercuria bakeri Glöer, Boeters & Walther, 2015
• Mercuria balearica (Paladilhe, 1869)
• Mercuria baudoniana (Gassies, 1859)
• Mercuria bayonnensis (Locard, 1894)
• Mercuria boetersi Schlickum & Strauch, 1979
• Mercuria bourguignati Glöer, Bouzid & Boeters, 2010^[3]
• Mercuria corsensis Boeters & Falkner, 2017
• Mercuria gauthieri Glöer, Bouzid & Boeters, 2010^[3]
• Mercuria glaberrima (O. Boettger, 1875)
• Mercuria globulina (Letourneux & Bourguignat, 1887)
• Mercuria helicella (F. Sandberger, 1858)
• Mercuria letourneuxiana (Bourguignat, 1862) ^[4]
• Mercuria maceana (Paladilhe, 1869)
• Mercuria melitensis (Paladilhe, 1869)
• Mercuria meridionalis (Risso, 1826)
• Mercuria midarensis Boulaassafer, Ghamizi & Delicado, 2018
• Mercuria punica (Letourneux & Bourguignat, 1887)
• Mercuria pycnocheilia (Bourguignat, 1862)
• Mercuria rolani Glöer, Boeters & Walther, 2015
• Mercuria saharica (Letourneux & Bourguignat, 1887)
• Mercuria sarahae (Paladilhe, 1869)
• Mercuria similis (Draparnaud, 1805) ^[5]
• Mercuria tachoensis (Frauenfeld, 1865)
• Mercuria tensiftensis Boulaassafer, Ghamizi & Delicado, 2018
• Mercuria tingitana Glöer, Boeters & Walther, 2015
• Mercuria vanparysi Marquet et al., 2008
• Mercuria zopissa (Paulucci, 1882)

Species brought into synonymy:

• Mercuria confusa (Frauenfeld, 1863):^[6] synonym of Mercuria similis (Draparnaud, 1805)
• Mercuria edmundi Boeters, 1986: synonym of Mercuria tachoensis (Frauenfeld, 1865) (junior synonym)
• Mercuria emiliana (Paladilhe, 1869): synonym of Pseudamnicola emilianus (Paladilhe, 1869)
• Mercuria perforata (Bourguignat, 1862) : synonym of Pseudamnicola dupotetiana (Forbes, 1838)
• Mercuria vindilica (Paladilhe, 1870): synonym of Mercuria sarahae vindilica (Paladilhe, 1870)

External links

• Web site: Mercuria Boeters, 1971. Natural History Museum, London.

Notes and References

1. Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). . XII, 195 pp.
2. Web site: Taxon Details: Mercuria Boeters 1971. https://web.archive.org/web/20140727141423/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=427128. dead. July 27, 2014. Fauna Europaea. 23 July 2014.
3. Glöer P., Bouzid S. & Boeters H. D. (2010). "Revision of the genera Pseudamnicola Paulucci 1878 and Mercuria Boeters 1971 from Algeria with particular emphasis on museum collections (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Hydrobiidae)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 139(1): 1-22. .
4. Van Damme, D. & Ghamizi, M. 2010. Mercuria letourneuxiana (Bourguignat, 1862). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T184749A8326304.en
5. Chlyeh G., Dodet M., Delay B., Khallaayoune K. & Jarne P. (2006). "Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Freshwater Snail Species in Relation to Migration and Environmental Factors in an Irrigated Area from Morocco". Hydrobiologia 553(1): 129-142. .
6. Gofas, S. . 2022 . Mercuria confusa . 153887 . 30 May 2022.