Mercuria (gastropod)

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.[2]

Mercuria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Truncatelloidea
Family:
Hydrobiidae
Genus:
Mercuria

Boeters, 1971[1]

Species

Species within the genus Mercuria include:[3][4]

  • Mercuria anatina
  • Mercuria balearica
  • Mercuria baudoniana
  • Mercuria bayonnensis
  • † Mercuria boetersi Schlickum & Strauch, 1979
  • Mercuria bourguignati Glöer, Bouzid & Boeters, 2010[5]
  • Mercuria confusa (Frauenfeld, 1863)[6]
  • Mercuria edmundi
  • Mercuria emiliana [7]
  • Mercuria gauthieri Glöer, Bouzid & Boeters, 2010[5]
  • Mercuria letourneuxiana
  • Mercuria maceana
  • Mercuria meridionalis
  • Mercuria perforata
  • Mercuria punica
  • Mercuria sarahae
  • Mercuria similis[8]
  • Mercuria tachoensis
  • Mercuria vindilica
  • Mercuria zopissa

References
  1. Boeters, H. D. (1971). Pseudamnicola Paulucci, 1878 und Mercuria n. gen. (Prosobranchia, Hydrobiidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 101: 177.
  2. Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
  3. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 23 July 2014
  4. "Taxon Details: Mercuria Boeters 1971". Fauna Europaea. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  5. 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. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/139/001-022.
  6. Gofas, S. (2011). Mercuria confusa (Frauenfeld, 1863). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=153887 on 2011-06-25
  7. "Mercuria emiliana". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
  8. 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. doi:10.1007/s10750-005-0968-9.


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