Helicostoa
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| Family: | Helicostoidae Pruvot-Fol, 1937[1]
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| Genus: | Helicostoa |
| Species: | H. sinensis
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| Helicostoa sinensis Lamy, 1926[2]
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Helicostoa is a monotypic genus of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the order Littorinimorpha containing the single species Helicostoa sinensis.[3]
Helicostoa is also the only genus in the family Helicostoidae.[4] According to taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Helicostoidae has no subfamilies.
Helicostoa sinensis was previously tentatively placed within the superfamily Rissooidea.[3] and before that it was in the superfamily Vermetoidea.[3]
Helicostoa sinensis is only found in China,[4] more specifically in the Yangtze River.[3]
This freshwater snail lives attached or bonded to blocks of limestone.[4]
References
- ^ (in French) Pruvot-Fol A. (1937). "Etude d'un prosobranche d'eau douce: Helicostoa sinensis Lamy". Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 62: 250-257.
- ^ a b (in French) Lamy E. (1926). "Sur une coquille enigmatique". Journal de Conchyliologie 70: 51-56. drawing.
- ^ a b c d Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
- ^ a b c Strong E. E., Gargominy O., Ponder W. F. & Bouchet P. (2008). "Global Diversity of Gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in Freshwater". Hydrobiologia 595: 149-166. hdl:10088/7390 doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9012-6.