Aphaostracon

Aphaostracon is a genus of very small or minute freshwater and brackish water snails that have an operculum, aquatic operculate gastropod mollusks in the family Cochliopidae.[1]

Aphaostracon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Truncatelloidea
Family:	Cochliopidae
Genus:	Aphaostracon F. G. Thompson, 1968
Type species
*Aphaostracon rhadinus F. G. Thompson, 1968

Species

This genus includes the following species:

• Aphaostracon asthenes F. G. Thompson, 1968
• Aphaostracon chalarogyrus F. G. Thompson, 1968
• Aphaostracon hypohyalinus F. G. Thompson, 1968
• Aphaostracon monas (Pilsbry, 1899)
• Aphaostracon pachynotus F. G. Thompson, 1968
• Aphaostracon pycnus F. G. Thompson, 1968
• Aphaostracon rhadinus F. G. Thompson, 1968
• Aphaostracon theiocrenetus F. G. Thompson, 1968
• Aphaostracon xynoelictum F. G. Thompson, 1968

References

1. Bouchet, P. (2014). Aphaostracon F. G. Thompson, 1968. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=729790 on 2014-11-16

• Hershler R. & Thompson F.G. (1992) A review of the aquatic gastropod subfamily Cochliopinae (Prosobranchia: Hydrobiidae). Malacological Review suppl. 5: 1-140.