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Iravadia

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superfamily
  
Truncatelloidea

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Iravadiidae

Rank
  
Genus

Similar
  
Iravadiidae, Stenothyra, Assiminea, Ceratia, Eatoniella

Iravadia is a genus of very small, somewhat amphibious land snails that have a gill and an operculum, semi-terrestrial gastropod mollusks or micromollusk in the family Iravadiidae.

Contents

These tiny snails live in damp habitat (under rotting vegetation) that is very close to the edge of the sea; they can tolerate being washed with saltwater during especially high tides. These snails are listed as freshwater snails by Vaught (1989).

Taxonomy

William Thomas Blanford established the genus Iravadia within the family Rissoidae in 1867.

Species

Species within the genus Iravadia include:

  • Iravadia angulata (Laseron, 1956)
  • Iravadia aristaei (Melvill, 1912)
  • Iravadia atemeles (Melvill, 1912)
  • Iravadia bombayana (Stoliczka, 1868)
  • Iravadia capitata (Laseron, 1956)
  • Iravadia carpentariensis (Hedley, 1912)
  • Iravadia cochinchinensis (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1910)
  • Iravadia delicata (Philippi, 1849)
  • Iravadia densilabrum (Melvill, 1912)
  • Iravadia dolini Lozouet, 2003
  • Iravadia elongata (Hornung & Mermod, 1928)
  • Iravadia expansilabrum Ponder, 1984
  • Iravadia gemmata Ponder, 1984
  • Iravadia goliath (Laseron, 1956)
  • Iravadia ictriella (Melvill, 1910)
  • Iravadia inflata (Ponder, 1967)
  • Iravadia ornata Blanford, 1867 - type species of the genus Iravadia
  • Iravadia padangensis (Thiele, 1925)
  • Iravadia pilbara Golding, 2014
  • Iravadia profundior Ponder, 1984
  • Iravadia quadrasi (O. Boettger, 1893)
  • Iravadia quadrina (Laseron, 1956)
  • Iravadia rohdei (Brandt, 1968)
  • Iravadia sublaevis (Laseron, 1956)
  • Iravadia subquadrata (Laseron, 1950)
  • Iravadia tenuilirata (Boettger, 1893)
  • Iravadia yendoi (Yokoyama, 1927)
  • Species brought into synonymy
  • Iravadia annandalei Preston, 1916: synonym of Iravadia ornata Blanford, 1867
  • Iravadia australis Hedley, 1900: synonym of Pellamora australis (Hedley, 1901)
  • Iravadia bella (A. Adams, 1853): synonym of Iravadia delicata (Philippi, 1849)
  • Iravadia elegantula (A. Adams, 1861): synonym of Fluviocingula elegantula (A. Adams, 1861)
  • Iravadia ennurensis Preston, 1916: synonym of Iravadia ornata Blanford, 1867
  • Iravadia funerea Preston, 1916: synonym of Iravadia ornata Blanford, 1867
  • Iravadia mahimensis (Melvill, 1893): synonym of Pseudomerelina mahimensis (Melvill, 1893)
  • Iravadia nipponica (Kuroda & Habe, 1954): synonym of Fluviocingula nipponica Kuroda & Habe, 1954
  • Iravadia princeps Preston, 1915: synonym of Iravadia ornata Blanford, 1867
  • Iravadia resima (Laseron, 1956): synonym of Fluviocingula resima (Laseron, 1956)
  • Iravadia reticulata Brandt, 1968: synonym of Iravadia quadrasi (O. Boettger, 1893)
  • Iravadia sakaguchii (Kuroda & Habe, 1954): synonym of Wakauraia sakaguchii (Kuroda & Habe, 1954)
  • Iravadia trochlearis (Gould, 1861): synonym of Stosicia annulata (Dunker, 1859)
  • Iravadia tuberculata Brandt, 1974: synonym of Iravadia mahimensis (Melvill, 1893)
  • References

    Iravadia Wikipedia