Rivularia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Family: Viviparidae
Subfamily: Viviparinae
Genus: Rivularia
Heude, 1890

Rivularia is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Viviparidae.[1] Species in this genus is distributed only along the Xiang River region of Hunan province, People's Republic of China.

Taxonomy

This genus was originally placed under the subfamily Bellamyinae of Viviparidae. In 2017, a reference moved the genus to Viviparinae according to anatomical and genetic data.[1][2]

Species

As of 3 September 2021, WoRMS only recognize one species in this genus, namely Rivularia auriculata (E. von Martens, 1875), the type species of this genus.[1] The original combinatiion is this species was Paludina auriculata Martens, 1875.[1]

taxon inquirendum
  • Rivularia bicarinata[3]
  • Rivularia calcarata[3]
  • Rivularia glandina Heude, 1890
  • Rivularia globosa Heude, 1890
  • Rivularia ovum Heude, 1890
  • Rivularia subelliptica Heude, 1890
Synonyms
  • Rivularia auricularis Heude, 1890 accepted as Rivularia auriculata (E. von Martens, 1875)
  • Rivularia elongata Heude, 1890 accepted as Rivularia auriculata (E. von Martens, 1875)(junior synonym)
  • Rivularia liuiana Yen, 1937 reclassified to Mekongia as Mekongia liuiana (Yen, 1937)(original combination)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Vinarski M, Bank R, Bouchet P (2020-01-18). Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O (eds.). "Rivularia". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2021-09-03.
  2. ↑ Van Bocxlaer, B.; Strong, Ellen E.; Richter, R.; Stelbrink, B.; Von Rintelen, T. (2017). "Anatomical and genetic data reveal that Rivularia Heude, 1890 belongs to Viviparinae (Gastropoda: Viviparidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx014.
  3. 1 2 太平洋岛 (2014-01-20). "【万有青年养成计划】湘江中下游江段田螺科物种考察篇" [transtitle] (in Simplified Chinese). GuoKr. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
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