''Semisulcospira gredleri'' 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
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 ...
with an
operculum, an 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 ...
in the family
Semisulcospiridae
Semisulcospiridae, common name semisulcospirids, is a family of freshwater snails, aquatic gilled gastropod mollusks with an operculum, in the superfamily Cerithioidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Semisulcospiridae J. P. E. Morrison, ...
.
The specific name ''gredleri'' is in honor of
Vinzenz Maria Gredler.
Distribution
This species occurs in
Jiangsu
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Province,
China
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.
Description
The female
reproductive system
The reproductive system of an organism, also known as the genital system, is the biological system made up of all the anatomical organs involved in sexual reproduction. Many non-living substances such as fluids, hormones, and pheromones are al ...
was described by Prozorova & Rasshepkina in 2005.
[Prozorova L. A. & Rasshepkina A. V. (2005). "On the reproductive anatomy of ''Semisulcospira'' (Cerithioidea: Pleuroceridae: Semisulcospirinae)". ''The Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society'' 9: 123–126]
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References
Semisulcospiridae
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