Parafossarulus Explained

Parafossarulus is a genus of freshwater snails with gills and an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Bithyniidae.^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Parafossarulus include:

• Parafossarulus anomalospiralis Liu, Li & Liu, 1985^[2]
• † Parafossarulus crassitesta (Bröhmme, 1885)
• Parafossarulus eximius (Frauenfeld)^[3]
• Parafossarulus globosus Liu, Zhang & Wang, 1994^[4]
• † Parafossarulus priscillae Girotti, 1972
• Parafossarulus manchouricus (Gerstfeldt in Bourguignat, 1860)^[5]
• Parafossarulus spiridonovi Zatrawkin & Starobogatov in Zatrawkin, Dovgalev & Starobogatov, 1989^[5]
• Parafossarulus striatulus (Benson, 1842) - type species
• Parafossarulus sungariensis Moskvicheva in Starobogatov, Zatravkin, 1987^[5]

Taxonomy

Glöer (2002)^[6] 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.

Notes and References

1. 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
2. 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
3. Madhyastha A. & Jinghua F. (2014). "Parafossarulus eximius". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T166250A1122592. Downloaded on 26 December 2015.
4. 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
5. 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.
6. Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp.,, page 190-194.