Sulcospira Explained
Sulcospira is a genus of freshwater snails which have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pachychilidae.
Distribution
The distribution of this genus includes: Malaysia, China, Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam.
Species
Species within the genus Sulcospira include:
- Sulcospira agrestis (Reeve, 1860)[1]
- Sulcospira circumstriata (Metcalfe, 1851)[1]
- Sulcospira collyra Köhler, Holford, Do & Ho, 2009[2]
- Sulcospira dakrongensis Köhler, Holford, Do & Ho, 2009[2]
- Sulcospira hainanensis (Brot, 1872)[1]
- Sulcospira housei (I. Lea, 1856)[1]
- Sulcospira infracostata (Mousson, 1849)[1]
- Sulcospira kawaluensis Marwoto & Isnaningsih, 2012[3]
- Sulcospira pisum (Brot, 1868)[3]
- Sulcospira provisoria (Brot, 1884)
- Sulcospira quangtriensis Köhler, Holford, Do & Ho, 2009[2]
- Sulcospira schmidti (Martens, 1908)[1]
- Sulcospira sulcospira (Mousson, 1849) - type species of the genus Sulcospira[3]
- Sulcospira testudinaria (von dem Busch, 1842)[1] [3]
- Sulcospira tonkiniana (Morlet, 1886)[1] [2]
- Sulcospira tourannensis (Souleyet, 1852)[1] [2]
- Sulcospira vietnamensis Köhler, Holford, Do & Ho, 2009[2]
Notes and References
- Köhler F. & Dames C. (2009). "Phylogeny and systematics of the Pachychilidae of mainland Southeast Asia – novel insights from morphology and mitochondrial DNA (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157: 679-699. .
- Köhler F., Holford M., Do V. T. & Ho T. H. (2009). "Exploring a largely unknown fauna: On the diversity of pachychilid freshwater gastropods in Vietnam (Caenogastropoda: Cerithioidea)". Molluscan Research 29(3): 121-146.
- Marwoto R. M. & Isnaningsih N. R. (2012). "The freshwater snail genus Sulcospira Troschel, 1857 from Java, with description of a new species from Tasikmalaya, West Java, Indonesia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pachychilidae)". The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 60(1): 1–10. PDF.