Parafossarulus sungariensis

Parafossarulus sungariensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Bithyniidae
Genus: Parafossarulus
Species: P. sungariensis
Binomial name
Parafossarulus sungariensis
Moskvicheva in Starobogatov & Zatravkin, 1987[2]

Parafossarulus sungariensis is a species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.

The specific name sungariensis comes from the name of the Sungari River, where this species was found.

Distribution

This species occurs in Heilongjiang Province and in Jilin Province in northeastern China.[1]

The type locality is the Sungari River basin, a small lake near Harbin.[2]

Habitat

Parafossarulus sungariensis lives in freshwater lakes and rivers.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Vinarski M. (2011). "Parafossarulus sungariensis". In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 14 May 2014.
  2. 1 2 (Russian) Starobogatov Ya. I. & Zatrawkin M. N. [Старобогатов Я. И. & Затравкин М. Н.] (1987). Bythinioidea (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia) фауны СССР [Bythinioidea (Gastropoda. Pectinibranchia) in the fauna of the USSR]. In: Моллюски. Результаты и перспективы их исследований. Восьмое Всесоюзное совещание по изучению моллюсков. [Molluscs. Results and perspectives of investigation]. Авторефераты докладов. Ленинград, Наука. [Vsesojuznoe soveshchanie po izucheniju molljuskov. Avtoreferaty dokladov, 8. Leningrad, Nauka]: 150-153. page 152.


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