Fukuia multistriata
Fukuia multistriata | |
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Live individual of Fukuia multistriata | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
Family: | Pomatiopsidae |
Subfamily: | Pomatiopsinae |
Genus: | Fukuia |
Species: | F. multistriata |
Binomial name | |
Fukuia multistriata Abbott & Hunter, 1949 | |
Synonyms | |
Fukuia kurodai multistriata Abbott & Hunter, 1949 |
Fukuia multistriata is a species of amphibious freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.[1]
Distribution
This species is endemic to Honshu, Japan.[1]
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An individual of Fukuia multistriata resting on a tree branch.
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The habitat of the amphibious species Fukuia multistriata is beside the waterfall.
Ecology
This species is a freshwater snail that lives in mountain streamlets.[1] It is also an amphibious snail and it is often arboreal.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 Kameda Y. & Kato M. (2011). "Terrestrial invasion of pomatiopsid gastropods in the heavy-snow region of the Japanese Archipelago". BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 118. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-118.
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