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Benedictia

Benedictia is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Lithoglyphidae.

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Benedictia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Lithoglyphidae
Subfamily: Benedictiinae
Genus: Benedictia
Dybowski, 18751
Diversity2
10 species

Benedictia is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Lithoglyphidae.3

Benedictia is the type genus of the subfamily Benedictiinae.3

Distribution

The genus Benedictia is endemic to Lake Baikal.4

Species

Species within the genus Benedictia include:

  • Benedictia baicalensis (Gerstfeldt, 1859)24
  • Benedictia distinguenda Lindholm, 19242
    • Benedictia distinguenda lamuana Sitnikova, 19872
  • Benedictia fragilis W. Dybowski, 1875 - type species2
  • Benedictia kotyensis Matiokin, Dzuban & Sitnikova, 198825
  • Benedictia limnaeoides (Schrenck, 1867)2
    • Benedictia limnaeoides ongurensis Kozhov, 19362
    • Benedictia limnaeoides litoralis Kozhov, 19362
  • Benedictia maxima (W. Dybowski, 1875)24
    • Benedictia maxima marisminus Sitnikova, 19872
  • Benedictia nana Beckman & Starobogatov, 1975 2
  • Benedictia pulchella Sitnikova, 19872
  • Benedictia pulchella sarmensis Sitnikova, 19872
  • Benedictia pumyla (Lindholm, 1924)2
  • Benedictia shadini Beckman & Starobogatov, 19752
References

References

  1. Dybowski W. (1875). "Die Gastropoden-Fauna des Baikal-Sees, anatomisch und systematisch bearbeitet". Mémories de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.Pétersbourg (7)22(8), 73 pp. page 4.
  2. Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on March 2, 2010). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.1 Archived 2016-12-15 at the Wayback Machine
  3. 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.
  4. Hausdorf, Bernhard; Röpstorf, Peter; Riedel, Frank (2003). "Relationships and origin of endemic Lake Baikal gastropods (Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea) based on mitochondrial DNA sequences". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 26 (3): 435–43. Bibcode:2003MolPE..26..435H. doi:10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00365-2. PMID 12644402..
  5. (in Russian) Матекин П. В., Дзубан Т. А. & Ситникова Т. Я. [Matiokin P. V., Dzuban T. A.] & Sitnikova T. Ya. (1988). "О новом виде рода Benedictia (Gastropoda, Benedictiidae) из озера Байкал". ["New species of the genus Benedictia (Gastropoda, Benedictiidae) from Baikal Lake". Зоологический Журнал Zoologicheskij Zhurnal 67(1): 129-135.