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Fukuia kurodai

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Phylum
  
Rank
  
Species

Class
  
Superfamily
  
Subfamily
  
Pomatiopsinae

Genus
  
Fukuia kurodai

Similar
  
Fukuia, Pomatiopsidae, Tricula, Rissooidea, Oncomelania hupensis

Fukuia kurodai is a species of amphibious freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.

Contents

Fukuia kurodai is the type species of the genus Fukuia.

Subspecies

There are two subspecies of Fukuia kurodai:

  • Fukuia kurodai kurodai Abbott & Hunter, 1949
  • Fukuia kurodai niigataensis Minato, 1973
  • Distribution

    This species is endemic to Honshu, Japan.

    Ecology

    This species is a freshwater snail which lives in mountain streamlets. It is also an amphibious snail and it is often arboreal.

    References

    Fukuia kurodai Wikipedia


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