Neothauma
| Neothauma | |
|---|---|
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| Shell of Neothauma tanganyicense | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Architaenioglossa |
| Family: | Viviparidae |
| Subfamily: | Bellamyinae |
| Genus: | Neothauma E. A. Smith, 1880[1] |
| Type species | |
| Neothauma tanganyicense E. A. Smith, 1880 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Viviparus (Neothauma) E. A. Smith, 1880 | |
Neothauma is a genus of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the subfamily Bellamyinae of the family Viviparidae.[2]
Species
[edit]- Neothauma jouberti Bourguignat, 1888[3]
- † Neothauma jupadwongaensis Musalizi, 2017
- Neothauma tanganyicense E. A. Smith, 1880[4][5]
- Taxa inquirenda
- Neothauma bridouxianum Grandidier, 1885
- Neothauma servainianum Grandidier, 1885
- Species brought into synonymy
- Neothauma bicarinatum Bourguignat, 1885: synonym of Neothauma tanganyicense var. bicarinatum Bourguignat, 1885
- Neothauma ecclesi Pain & Crowley, 1964: synonym of Bellamya ecclesi (Crowley & Pain, 1964) (original combination)
- Neothauma giraudi Bourguignat, 1885: synonym of Neothauma tanganyicense E. A. Smith, 1880 (junior synonym)
History
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The genus Neothauma previously contained several species, but most were reassigned to other genera.[6]
References
[edit]- ↑ Smith E. A. (1880). "On the shells of Lake Tanganyika and of the neighbourhood of Ujiji, central Africa". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1880: 344-352. Page 349. Plate 31.
- ↑ 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.). "Neothauma E. A. Smith, 1880". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2021-09-19.
- ↑ MNHN, Paris: syntype of Neothauma jouberti
- ↑ Mita E. Sengupta; Thomas K. Kristensen; Henry Madsen & Aslak Jørgensen (2009). "Molecular phylogenetic investigations of the Viviparidae (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda) in the lakes of the Rift Valley area of Africa". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 52 (3): 797–805. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.05.007. PMID 19435609.
- ↑ Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.
- ↑ Bourguignat, Jules René (1888-01-01). Iconographie malacologique des animaux mollusques fluviatiles du Lac Tanganika (in French). Impr. Crété.
External links
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Media related to Neothauma at Wikimedia Commons- Bourguignat (1890), "Histoire malacologique du Lac Tanganika (Afrique equaltoriale)"
