Semisulcospira decipiens

Semisulcospira decipiens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Semisulcospiridae
Genus: Semisulcospira
Species: S. decipiens
Binomial name
Semisulcospira decipiens
Synonyms

Melania niponica var. decipiens Westerlund, 1883

Semisulcospira decipiens is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Semisulcospiridae.

Taxonomy

Type specimen were collected during the Vega Expedition led by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld in 1878–1880.[2] This species was originally described under the name Melania niponica var. decipiens by Swedish malacologist Carl Agardh Westerlund in 1883.[2]

Semisulcospira decipiens belong to the Semisulcospira niponica species group.[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Lake Biwa and in the Yodo River, Japan.[1]

The type locality is the lake Biwa.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Köhler F. & Rintelen T. (2011). "Semisulcospira decipiens". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011. Version e.T189228A8704130. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 17 November 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 (in German) Westerlund C. A. (1883). "Von der Vega-expedition in Asien gesammelte Binnen mollusken". Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 15(3–4): 48–59.
  3. ↑ Davis G. M. (1969). "A taxonomic study of some species of Semisulcospira in Japan (Mesogastropoda: Pleuroceridae)". Malacologia 7: 211-294.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.