Sibirenauta

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Sibirenauta
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clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
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Sibirenauta

Starobogatov & Streletzkaja, 1967[1]
Diversity[2]
4 species

Sibirenauta is a genus of left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Physidae.

The scientific name Sibirenauta is composed from the word Siberia, where its species live and from the Latin word nauta, that means "sailor".[2]

Distribution[]

Distribution the genus Sibirenauta ranges from Siberia to Canada and the United States of America.[2]

Species[]

Species in the genus Sibirenauta include:

  • (Middendorff, 1851) - type species[2]
  • Sibirenauta elongatus (Say, 1821)[2]
  • (Krause, 1883)[2]
  • Sibirenauta sibiricus (Westerlund, 1877)[2]

References[]

  1. ^ Starobogatov Y. I. & Streletskaja E. A. (1967). Sostav i zoogeograficheskaya kharakteristika presnovodnoi malakofauny vostochnoi Sibiri i severa dal’nego vostoka. Trudy Zool. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR 42: 221-268.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Taylor D. W. (2003). "Introduction to Physidae (Gastropoda: Hygrophila). Biology, classification, morphology". 51(Suppl. 1): 1-299. (1-195, 197-263, 265-287). pages 10-11, 56-71.
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