Sierraia

Sierraia is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Bithyniidae.

Sierraia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Rissooidea
Family:
Bithyniidae
Genus:
Sierraia

Species

Species in the genus Sierraia include:

  • Sierraia expansilabrum Brown, 1988 - vulnerable, from Sierra Leone
  • Sierraia leonensis Connolly, 1929 - vulnerable, from Sierra Leone
  • Sierraia outambensis Brown, 1988 - critically endangered, from Sierra Leone
  • Sierraia whitei Brown, 1988 - least concern, from Sierra Leone

Distribution

This genus occurs in Sierra Leone.

References
  1. Connolly M. W. K. (1929). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)3: 177.


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