Rhodacmea

Rhodacmea
Two views of a shell of Rhodacmea filosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily: Planorboidea
Family: Planorbidae
Subfamily: Rhodacmeinae
Genus: Rhodacmea
Walker, 1917[1]
Diversity[2]
3 species

Rhodacmea is a genus of small freshwater snails or limpets, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies.[2]

Rhodacmea is the type genus of the subfamily Rhodacmeinae.[3]

Anatomy

These animals have a pallial lung, as do all pulmonate snails, but they also have a false gill or "pseudobranch". This serves as a gill, which is necessary as, in their non-tidal habitat, these limpets never reach the surface for air.

Species

Species in the genus Rhodacmea include:

References

  1. 1 2 Walker B. (1917). "A revision of the classification of the North American patelliform Ancylidae with descriptions of new species". The Nautilus 31(1): 1-10. page 5. plate 1-plate 3.
  2. 1 2 3 Ó Foighil D., Li J., Lee T., Johnson P., Evans R. & Burch J. B. (2011). "Conservation Genetics of a Critically Endangered Limpet Genus and Rediscovery of an Extinct Species". PLoS ONE 6(5): e20496. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020496.
  3. ↑ Bouchet P.; Rocroi J.-P.; Frýda J.; Hausdorf B.; Ponder W.; Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  4. ↑ Bogan, A.E. (1996). "Rhodacmea elatior". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
  5. ↑ Cordeiro, J. (2012). "Rhodacmea filosa". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
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