Amuropaludina praerosa

Amuropaludina praerosa is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae.

Amuropaludina praerosa
Drawing of an apertural view of the shell of Amuropaludina praerosa.

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:
Viviparoidea
Family:
Viviparidae
Subfamily:
Bellamyinae
Genus:
Amuropaludina
Species:
A. praerosa
Binomial name
Amuropaludina praerosa
(Gerstfeldt, 1859)[2]
Synonyms[3]

Paludina praerosa Gerstfeldt, 1859

Amuropaludina praerosa is the type species of the genus Amuropaludina.[3]

Distribution

This species is found in the Amur River basin, in Russia.[1] The type locality is the middle Amur River.[3]

Major threats include river pollution.[1]

Drawing of an apertural view of the shell of Amuropaludina praerosa

References
  1. Vinarski M. (2011). "Amuropaludina praerosa". In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 09 May 2014.
  2. Gerstfeldt G. (1859). "Ueber Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken Sibiriens und Amur-Gebietes". Mémoires des Savants étrangers 9: 507-548. 509-510, plate 9, figs 6a, 7.
  3. Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on March 2, 2010). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.1.


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