''Stenophysa marmorata'' is a

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

of air-breathing

freshwater snail Freshwater snails are gastropod mollusks that live in fresh water. There are many different families. They are found throughout the world in various habitats, ranging from ephemeral pools to the largest lakes, and from small seeps and springs t ...

, an

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gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

in the family

Physidae Physidae, common name, commonly called the bladder snails, is a family (biology), family of small air-breathing freshwater snails, Aquatic animal, aquatic pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Lymnaeoidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). Mol ...

.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Stenophysa marmorata (Guilding, 1828). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1253849 on 2022-01-14

Distribution

This species occurs in the

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.Reeves W. K., Dillon Jr. R. T. & Dasch G. A. (2008). "Freshwater snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Commonwealth of Dominica with a discussion of their roles in the transmission of parasites". ''American Malacological Bulletin'' 24: 59-63.
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. and St. Vincent

References

* Robart, G., Mandahl-Barth, G. & Ripert, C. (1977). Inventaire, repartition geographique et ecologie des mollusques dulcaquicoles d'Haiti (Caraibes). Haliotis. 8: 159-171.

External links

Guilding, I. (1828). Observations on the zoology of the Caribbean Islands. The Zoological Journal. 3: 527-544

Sowerby, G. B. I. (1821-1834). The genera of recent and fossil shells, for the use of students, in conchology and geology. Published in 42 numbers. Vol. 1, pls 1-126

Sowerby, G. B. II. (1873-1874). Monograph of the genus Physa. In: Conchologia iconica, or illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 19, pls 1-12 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve, London.

Villa, A. & Villa, J. B. (1841). Dispositio systematica conchyliarum terrestrium et fluviatilium quae adservantur in collectione fratrum Ant. et Jo. Bapt. Villa. Conspectu abnormitatum novarumque specierum descriptionibus adjectis. 62 pp. (+ 2 pp. Resumptus numeralis specierum + Errata).

aylor, D. W. (2003). Introduction to Physidae (Gastropoda: Hygrophila); biogeography, classification, morphology. Revista de Biología Tropical. 51(Suppl. 1): 1-263 (includes a Catalog of species, pp. 197-263).

Paraense, W. L. (1986). Physa Marmorata Guilding, 1828 (Pulmonata: Physidae). Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. 81(4): 459-469
* Appleton C. C. & Dana P. (2005). "Re-examination of ''Physa mosambiquensis'' Clessin, 1886 and its relationship with other Aplexinae (Pulmonata: Physidae) reported from Africa". ''

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abstract
Physidae Gastropods described in 1828 Taxa named by Lansdown Guilding Fauna of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines {{Physidae-stub