Mexinauta
| Mexinauta | |
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| Shell of Mexinauta impluviatus(syntype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Superfamily: | Lymnaeoidea |
| Family: | Physidae |
| Genus: | Mexinauta D. W. Taylor, 2003 |
| Type species | |
| Physa nitens Philippi, 1841 | |
Mexinauta is a genus of small, left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Aplexinae of the family Physidae. [1]
Species[]
- (Carpenter, 1857)
- (P. Fischer & Crosse, 1886)
- (Morelet, 1849)
- (E. von Martens, 1898)
- (Morelet, 1851)
- (Philippi, 1841)
- (Gray, 1828)
- (Phillips, 1846)
- Synonyms
- Mexinauta aurantia (Carpenter, 1857): synonym of (Carpenter, 1857) (wrong gender agreement of specific epithet; Mexinauta is masculine")
References[]
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Mexinauta D. W. Taylor, 2003. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1057350 on 2021-07-16
External links[]
Media related to Mexinauta at Wikimedia Commons- Taylor, D. W. (2003). Introduction to Physidae (Gastropoda: Hygrophila); biogeography, classification, morphology. Revista de Biología Tropical. 51(Suppl. 1): 1-263 (includes a Catalog of species, pp. 197-263)
Categories:
- Physidae