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Hippeutis

Hippeutis is a genus of minute air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ramshorn snails.

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Hippeutis
Drawing of shell of Hippeutis complanatus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Hygrophila
Family: Planorbidae
Tribe: Segmentinini
Genus: Hippeutis
Charpentier, 18371

Hippeutis is a genus of minute air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ramshorn snails.

Albrecht et al. (2007)2 have confirmed its placement in the tribe Segmentinini within subfamily Planorbinae.2

Species

Species within the genus Hippeutis include:3

  • Hippeutis complanatus (Linnaeus, 1758) - type species of the genus Hippeutis
  • Hippeutis badae (Bollinger, 1914) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
  • Hippeutis stossichi (Clessin, 1881) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
Fossil species
  • Hippeutis acuticarinatus (Dunker, 1853)
  • Hippeutis ambiguus (Deshayes, 1863)
  • Hippeutis applanatus X.-H. Yu, 1987
  • Hippeutis bajandaicus (Popova, 1981)
  • Hippeutis bureaui (Cossmann, 1919)
  • Hippeutis chertieri (Deshayes, 1863)
  • Hippeutis clathratus (G.-X. Zhu, 1980)
  • Hippeutis discotus (G.-X. Zhu, 1980)
  • Hippeutis eysdenensis (Vincent, 1930)
  • Hippeutis fasciatus Gottschick, 1920
  • Hippeutis headonensis (Jodot, 1942)
  • Hippeutis inflatus (Deshayes, 1825)
  • Hippeutis langxiensis Pan, 1982
  • Hippeutis lens (Brongniart, 1810)
  • Hippeutis luminosa Yü, 1965
  • Hippeutis muzzolonicus (Oppenheim, 1895)
  • Hippeutis obtusus (J.Sowerby, 1816)
  • Hippeutis patella (F.Sandberger, 1871)
  • Hippeutis rouvillei (Matheron, 1868)
  • Hippeutis rouxi (Noulet, 1863)
  • Hippeutis sowerbyi (Bronn, 1838)
  • Hippeutis subfontanus (Clessin, 1877)
  • Hippeutis ungeri (Reuss, 1849)
  • Hippeutis vicentinus (Oppenheim, 1895)
References

References

  1. Charpentier J. de (1837). "Catalogue des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la Suisse. Formant la seconde partie de la faune Helvétique". Neue Denkschriften der Allgemeinen Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften - Nouveaux Mémoires de la Société Helvétique des Sciences Naturelles. 1 (1/2). Neuchatel: 1-28 22.
  2. Albrecht C.; Kuhn K.; Streit B. (2007). "A molecular phylogeny of Planorboidea (Gastropoda, Pulmonata): insights from enhanced taxon sampling". Zoologica Scripta. 36: 27–39. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00258.x.
  3. "Hippeutis Charpentier, 1837". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 23 October 2021.
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