Hua (gastropod)

Hua
Shell of Hua jacqueti (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
Family:	Semisulcospiridae
Genus:	Hua S.-F. Chen, 1943
Type species
Melania telonaria Heude, 1889

Hua is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Semisulcospiridae. ^[1]

Species[]

Species within the genus Hua include:

• (Heude, 1889)
• (Heude, 1889)
• (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1910)
• (Boettger, 1887)
• (Heude, 1889)
• L.-N. Du, Köhler, X.-Y. Chen & J.-X. Yang, 2019
• (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1906)
• L.-N. Du, Köhler, G.-H. Yu, X.-Y. Chen & J.-X. Yang, 2019
• L-N. Du, Köhler, G.-H. Yu, X.-Y. Chen & J.-X. Yang, 2019
• (Heude, 1889)
• (Gredler, 1884)
• (Fulton, 1914)
• L-N. Du, Köhler, G.-H. Yu, X.-Y. Chen & J.-X. Yang, 2019
• (Heude, 1889)
• (Heude, 1889)
• (Heude, 1889)
• (Fulton, 1914)

Synonyms

• Hua (Namrutua) Abbott, 1948: synonym of Semisulcospira O. Böttger, 1886
• Hua leprosa (Heude, 1889): synonym of Hua telonaria (Heude, 1889) (junior synonym)
• Hua schmackeri (Böttger, 1886): synonym of Hua praenotata (Gredler, 1884) (junior synonym)

References[]

• Strong, E. & Köhler, F., 2009. Morphological and molecular analysis of 'Melania' jacqueti Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1906: from anonymous orphan to critical basal offshoot of the Semisulcospiridae (Gastropda: Cerithioidea). Zoologica Scripta 38: 483-502

External links[]

• Media related to Hua at Wikimedia Commons
• Chen, S.-F. [Sui-Fong. (1943). Two new genera, two new species, and two new names of Chinese Melaniidae. Nautilus. 57: 19-21]
• Du, L.-N. [Li-Na; Köhler, F.; Yu, G.-H. [Guo-Hua]; Chen, X.-Y. [Xiao-Yong]; Yang, J.-X. [Jun-Xing]. (2019). Comparative morpho-anatomy and mitochondrial phylogeny of the Semisulcospiridae of Yunnan, southwestern China, with description of four new species (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea). Invertebrate systematics. 33: 825-848]