Iravadia

Iravadia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Iravadiidae
Genus: Iravadia
Blanford, 1867[1]
Type species
Iravadia ornata Blanford, 1867
Synonyms[2]
  • Dipsotoma Laseron, 1956
  • Fairbankia Stoliczka, 1868
  • Iraqirissoa Dance & Eames, 1966
  • Iravadia (Fairbankia) Stoliczka, 1868
  • Iravadia (Fluviocingula) Kuroda & Habe, 1954
  • Iravadia (Iravadia) Blanford, 1867
  • Iravadia (Pseudomerelina) Ponder, 1984
  • Iravadia (Pseudonoba) Boettger, 1902
  • Lucidinella Laseron, 1956
  • Paronoba Laseron, 1950
  • Pseudonoba O. Boettger, 1902
  • Sinusicola Kuroda & Habe, 1950 (unavailable name: established without description)

Iravadia is a genus of very small, somewhat amphibious land snails that have a gill and an operculum, semi-terrestrial gastropod mollusks or micromollusk in the family Iravadiidae.[2]

These tiny snails live in damp habitat (under rotting vegetation) that is very close to the edge of the sea; they can tolerate being washed with saltwater during especially high tides. These snails are listed as freshwater snails by Vaught (1989).[3]

Taxonomy

William Thomas Blanford established the genus Iravadia within the family Rissoidae in 1867.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Iravadia include:

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. 1 2 Blanford W. T. (1867). "Contributions to Indian Malacology, No. VIII. List of Estuary shells collected in the delta of the Irawady, in Pegu, with descriptions of the new species". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 36(2): 51-72, page 56, plate 2, figure 13-14.
  2. 1 2 Gofas, S. (2012). Iravadia Blanford, 1867. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205147 on 2012-08-12
  3. Vaught K. C. (1989) A classification of the living mollusca, edited by R. Tucker Abbott and Kenneth J. Boss.
  4. 1 2 Lozouet P. (2003). "A new species of Iravadia s.s. (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Iravadiidae) from the late Oligocene of the Aquitaine Basin (southern France). The earliest record of brackish-water Iravadiidae?". Geodiversitas 25(2): 237-242. PDF.


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