''Mexinauta'' is a
genus
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of small, left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing
freshwater snail
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s,
aquatic
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* Aquatic animal, either vertebrate ...
pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...
gastropod
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mollusk
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s in the subfamily Aplexinae of 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. Mexinauta D. W. Taylor, 2003. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1057350 on 2021-07-16]
Species
* ''
Mexinauta aurantius''
(Carpenter, 1857)
* ''
Mexinauta gracilentus''
(P. Fischer & Crosse, 1886)
* ''
Mexinauta impluviatus''
(Morelet, 1849)
* ''
Mexinauta laetus''
(E. von Martens, 1898)
* ''
Mexinauta nicaraguanus''
(Morelet, 1851)
* ''
Mexinauta nitens''
(Philippi, 1841)
* ''
Mexinauta peruvianus''
(Gray, 1828)
* ''
Mexinauta princeps''
(Phillips, 1846)
;Synonyms:
* ''Mexinauta aurantia''
(Carpenter, 1857): synonym of ''
Mexinauta aurantius''
(Carpenter, 1857) (wrong gender agreement of specific epithet; Mexinauta is masculine")
References
External links
*
Taylor, 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)
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Physidae