''Ferrissia'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of small, air-breathing
freshwater limpets, aquatic
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 ...
s in the family
Planorbidae
Planorbidae, common name the ramshorn snails or ram's horn snails, is a family (biology), family of air-breathing freshwater snails, Aquatic animal, aquatic pulmonate gastropod Mollusca, molluscs. Unlike most molluscs, the blood of ram's horn sn ...
, the ram's horn snails and their allies.
Species
Species within the genus ''Ferrissia'' include:
* ''
Ferrissia baconi'' (Bourguignat, 1853)
* ''
Ferrissia beaui'' (Bourguignat, 1853) - Beau's Stream Limpet
* ''
Ferrissia burnupi'' (Walker, 1912)
* ''
Ferrissia cawstoni'' Walker, 1924
* ''
Ferrissia ceylanica'' Benson, 1864
* ''
Ferrissia chudeaui'' Germain, 1917
* ''
Ferrissia clifdeni'' Connolly, 1939
* ''
Ferrissia connollyi'' (Walker, 1912)
* † ''
Ferrissia crenellata'' Harzhauser & Neubauer in Harzhauser et al., 2012
* † ''
Ferrissia deperdita'' (Desmarest, 1814)
* † ''
Ferrissia dimici'' (Brusina, 1902)
* ''
Ferrissia dohrnianus'' (Clessin, 1882)
* ''
Ferrissia eburnensis'' Binder, 1957
* ''
Ferrissia farquhari'' (Walker, 1924)
* ''
Ferrissia fontinalis'' (Walker, 1912)
* ''
Ferrissia fragilis'' (Tryon, 1863) - synonyms: ''Ferrissia clessiniana'' (Jickeli, 1882), ''Ferrissia wautieri'' (Mirolli, 1960) - Fragile Ancylid
* ''
Ferrissia gentilis'' Lanzer, 1991
* † ''
Ferrissia illyrica'' (Neumayr, 1880)
* ''
Ferrissia irrorata'' (Guilding, 1828)
* ''
Ferrissia isseli'' (Bourguignat, 1866)
* ''
Ferrissia junodi'' Connolly, 1925
* ''
Ferrissia kavirondica'' (Mandahl-Barth, 1954)
* ''
Ferrissia lacustris'' Walker, 1924
* ''
Ferrissia leonensis'' Connolly, 1928
* ''
Ferrissia lhotelleriei'' Walker, 1914 - dubious species
* ''
Ferrissia mcneili'' Walker, 1925 -
hood ancylid
* ''
Ferrissia modesta'' Crosse, 1880
* ''
Ferrissia natalensis'' Walker, 1924
* ''
Ferrissia neozelanica'' (Suter, 1905)
* † ''
Ferrissia neumayri'' (Fontannes, 1881)
* ''
Ferrissia pallaryi'' Walker, 1914 - dubious species
* ''
Ferrissia parallela'' (Haldeman) - oblong ancylid or ''
Ferrissia parallelus''
* ''
Ferrissia petterdi'' (Johnston, 1879)
* † ''
Ferrissia pontileviensis'' (Morgan, 1920)
* ''
Ferrissia siamensis'' Brandt, 1974
* ''
Ferrissia rivularis'' (Say, 1817) - the
type species
In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...
* ''
Ferrissia tasmanica'' (Woods, 1876)
* ''
Ferrissia tanganyicensis'' (Smith, 1906)
* ''
Ferrissia tenuis'' (Bourguignat, 1862)
* ''
Ferrissia toroensis'' (Mandahl-Barth, 1954)
* † ''
Ferrissia truci'' Wautier, 1975
* ''
Ferrissia verruca'' (Benson, 1855)
* ''
Ferrissia victoriensis'' (Walker, 1912)
* ''
Ferrissia viola'' (Annandale & Prashad, 1921)
* ''
Ferrissia walkeri'' (Pilsbry & Ferriss, 1907)
* † ''
Ferrissia wittmanni'' (Schlickum, 1964)
* ''
Ferrissia zambesiensis'' (Walker, 1912)
* ''
Ferrissia zambiensis'' Mandahl-Barth, 1968
Many specific names need revision, for example 11 species of ''Ferrissia'' in southern Africa.
;Species brought into synonymy:
* † ''Ferrissia senckenbergiana'' (Boettger, 1877): synonym of † ''Ferrissia deperdita'' (Desmarest, 1814)
* ''Ferrissia wautieri''
(Mirolli, 1960): synonym of ''Ferrissia fragilis''
(Tryon, 1836)
* ''Ferrissia (Pettancylus) clessiniana''
(Jickeli, 1882): synonym of ''
Pettancylus clessiniana''
(Jickeli, 1882)
References
External links
* Greke K. (2011). "First record of the genus ''Ferrissia'' Walker, 1903 (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) from the Papuan region". In: Telnov D. ''Biodiversity, Biogeography and Nature Conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea. Volume I.'', The Entomological Society of Latvia, Riga, 526 pp.
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